Waldwinkel by Theodor Storm

"Waldwinkel" by Theodor Storm is a novella written in 1874. A botanist in his early forties returns from exile and becomes infatuated with a seventeen-year-old orphan girl. They spend a summer together in a secluded forest mansion called Waldwinkel. As Richard prepares to marry the soon-to-be eighteen-year-old Franziska, she makes a fateful decision. The story explores the complexities of age, power, and desire against the backdrop of mid-nineteenth-century German society. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Storm, Theodor, 1817-1888
Title Waldwinkel
Note Wikipedia page about this book: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waldwinkel_(Novelle)
Credits Produced by Mike Pullen and Delphine Lettau
Reading Level Reading ease score: 79.3 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.
Language German
LoC Class PT: Language and Literatures: Germanic, Scandinavian, and Icelandic literatures
Subject Germany, Northern -- Fiction
Category Text
EBook-No. 8921
Release Date
Most Recently Updated Jan 2, 2021
Copyright Status Public domain in the USA.
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