Vor Sonnenaufgang: Soziales Drama by Gerhart Hauptmann

"Vor Sonnenaufgang: Soziales Drama" by Gerhart Hauptmann is a social drama written in 1889. The play depicts a wealthy farming family's descent into alcoholism and decay after discovering coal on their land. Helene, the only daughter educated away from home, suffers in this environment until a visiting economist arrives to study local workers. Their developing romance faces a devastating obstacle when he discovers her family's alcoholism, believing it hereditary. The work marked the breakthrough of naturalism in German theater. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Hauptmann, Gerhart, 1862-1946
Title Vor Sonnenaufgang: Soziales Drama
Note Wikipedia page about this book: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vor_Sonnenaufgang
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Reading Level Reading ease score: 87.1 (6th grade). Easy to read.
Language German
LoC Class PT: Language and Literatures: Germanic, Scandinavian, and Icelandic literatures
Subject German drama
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EBook-No. 52218
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Copyright Status Public domain in the USA.
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