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Title: Unterm Birnbaum

Note: Reading ease score: 81.7 (6th grade). Easy to read.

Credits: Produced by Markus Brenner and the Online Distributed
Proofreading Team at https: //www.pgdp.net (This file made
from scans of public domain material at Klassik Stiftung
Weimar / Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek.)

Summary: "Unterm Birnbaum" by Theodor Fontane is a novel written in the late 19th century. The story revolves around the lives and struggles of the residents in a small village, highlighting the life of Abel Hradscheck, a local innkeeper and merchant, as he deals with various personal and financial challenges, alongside interactions with his wife, Ursel, and their neighbors. The opening of the novel sets the stage in the village of Tschechin, where Abel Hradscheck is busy with his gasthaus and material business. As the new harvest season approaches, he is preoccupied with managing deliveries and maintaining his establishment, while also grappling with thoughts about his family's past tragedies and financial burdens. The conversation with his wife hints at their troubled relationship and shared grief over their deceased children. This early depiction introduces themes of societal expectations, individual striving, and the tension between personal aspirations and harsh realities, laying a complex groundwork for the unfolding drama in the village. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

Author: Fontane, Theodor, 1819-1898

EBook No.: 26686

Published: Sep 21, 2008

Downloads: 146

Language: German

Subject: Detective and mystery stories, German

Subject: Germany -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction

Subject: Germany, Northern -- Fiction

LoCC: Language and Literatures: Germanic, Scandinavian, and Icelandic literatures

Category: Text

Rights: Public domain in the USA.

This edition has images.

Title: Unterm Birnbaum

Note: Reading ease score: 81.7 (6th grade). Easy to read.

Credits: Produced by Markus Brenner and the Online Distributed
Proofreading Team at https: //www.pgdp.net (This file made
from scans of public domain material at Klassik Stiftung
Weimar / Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek.)

Summary: "Unterm Birnbaum" by Theodor Fontane is a novel written in the late 19th century. The story revolves around the lives and struggles of the residents in a small village, highlighting the life of Abel Hradscheck, a local innkeeper and merchant, as he deals with various personal and financial challenges, alongside interactions with his wife, Ursel, and their neighbors. The opening of the novel sets the stage in the village of Tschechin, where Abel Hradscheck is busy with his gasthaus and material business. As the new harvest season approaches, he is preoccupied with managing deliveries and maintaining his establishment, while also grappling with thoughts about his family's past tragedies and financial burdens. The conversation with his wife hints at their troubled relationship and shared grief over their deceased children. This early depiction introduces themes of societal expectations, individual striving, and the tension between personal aspirations and harsh realities, laying a complex groundwork for the unfolding drama in the village. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

Author: Fontane, Theodor, 1819-1898

EBook No.: 26686

Published: Sep 21, 2008

Downloads: 146

Language: German

Subject: Detective and mystery stories, German

Subject: Germany -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction

Subject: Germany, Northern -- Fiction

LoCC: Language and Literatures: Germanic, Scandinavian, and Icelandic literatures

Category: Text

Rights: Public domain in the USA.