On tangled paths
Fontane, Theodor, 1819-18982025
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From Germany's greatest 19th-century novelist, this realist masterpiece interrogates the strict social codes of a rapidly changing era through a wistful struggle between love and obligation. Lene is an orphaned seamstress; Botho is a nobleman and an officer in one of the Prussian army's most glittering regiments. But despite their differences of class and education, they fall quickly in love, spending a summer together in a clear-eyed, tender love affair before society's demands force them cruelly apart. Now married to a wealthy cousin, Botho learns years later that Lene too has an opportunity to marry. Her ex-lover must choose between holding on to regret or letting go of the past - along with the possibility of getting Lene herself back.
Main title:
On tangled paths / Theodor Fontane ; translated by Peter James Bowman.
Author:
Fontane, Theodor, 1819-1898, authorBowman, Peter James, translator
Imprint:
London : Pushkin Press, 2025.
Collation:
240 pages ; 20 cm.
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Notes:
Translated from the German.
ISBN:
9781805331612 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
833.8
Language:
EnglishGerman
BRN:
9014735