A Village Romeo and Juliet

Gottfried Keller (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

128 Seiten

2015
Alma Classics (Verlag)
978-1-84749-457-3 (ISBN)

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Presents a tale of two young lovers kept apart by a family feud. This title tells how inspired by the suicides of two real-life sweethearts and set in rural Switzerland, the tale evokes the overwhelming beauty of young love and nature, but is ultimately pessimistic about the possibility of such beauty surviving in the real world.

A Village Romeo and Juliet is a bitter-sweet tragedy telling the tale of two young lovers kept apart by a family feud. Inspired by the story of two real-life sweethearts and set in rural Switzerland, it evokes the overwhelming beauty of young love and nature, but is ultimately pessimistic about the possibility of such beauty surviving in the real world.

Although it attracted controversy when it was first published in 1856, Keller’s timeless novella has now rightfully entered the canon of world literature and is widely considered as one of the finest examples of nineteenth-century poetic realism.

Reaching the height of his fame for the semi-autobiographical novel Green Henry, Gottfried Keller (1819–90) is widely considered to be one of the greatest Swiss-German writers.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	15.3.2015
Übersetzer	Ronald Taylor
Verlagsort	Richmond
Sprache	englisch
Maße	128 x 198 mm
Gewicht	149 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
ISBN-10	1-84749-457-9 / 1847494579
ISBN-13	978-1-84749-457-3 / 9781847494573
Zustand	Neuware