Die Wacht am Rhein : Roman by Clara Viebig

"Die Wacht am Rhein: Roman" by Clara Viebig is a historical novel published in 1902. Set in nineteenth-century Düsseldorf, the story traces three generations of the Rinke family as Rhinelanders gradually unite with their Prussian rulers. The tale begins with a controversial marriage between Protestant Prussian soldier Friedrich Rinke and Catholic Rhineland tavern-keeper's daughter Katharina, whose union faces family resistance and cultural conflict. As their children grow amid rising revolutionary fervor and social change, loyalties are tested and family bonds strained between military duty and personal conscience. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Viebig, Clara, 1860-1952
Title Die Wacht am Rhein : Roman
Original Publication Berlin: Egon Fleischel & Co., 1904.
Note Wikipedia page about this book: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Wacht_am_Rhein_(Roman)
Credits Peter Becker, Martin Oswald and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
Reading Level Reading ease score: 82.1 (6th grade). Easy to read.
Language German
LoC Class PT: Language and Literatures: Germanic, Scandinavian, and Icelandic literatures
Subject Historical fiction
Subject Düsseldorf (Germany) -- Fiction
Category Text
eBook-No. 74895
Release Date
Last Update Dec 17, 2024
Copyright Public domain in the USA.
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