| The Rider of the White Horse (The Dikegrave. German Classics) Contributor(s): Storm, Theodor (Author), Almon, Muriel (Translator), Eiserhardt, Ewald (Preface by) |
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ISBN: 1595690743 ISBN-13: 9781595690746 Publisher: MONDIAL OUR PRICE: $14.11 Product Type: Paperback Published: November 2007 Annotation: In this classic German novella, originally published in 1888, the individual wrestles with the mass, and man with the most elementary forces of nature. It is Storm's last complete work. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Ghost - Fiction | Psychological |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2007940788 |
| Series: German Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.28" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.34 lbs) 116 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The Rider of the White Horse (1888) is a classic German novella, in which the individual wrestles with the mass, the man with the most elementary forces of nature. It is Theodor Storm's (1817-1888) last complete work. --- The scene of the novella is characterized with vividness and grandeur in its setting of marsh and sea. Like the stories of Storm's youth, it glorifies love, the love of two beings who are faithful to each other unto death, and at the same time it touches themes which deeply occupied Storm, such as the problem of heredity or the relation between father and son. The charm of youth, to which Storm was always most susceptible, invests the chief characters, and they have that chaste reserve that holds all internal life sacred. Happiness is won, but it ends in tragedy. It is a man of sober intellect who tells the whole story - and yet, like human life itself, it stands out against a mystic background. Remembrance of long ago has clarified everything; loving comprehension fills everything with deepest sympathy. --- It was granted to Storm to stand on a pinnacle of art at the end of his life, a pinnacle which he had to leave, but from which he did not need to descend. (Ewald Eiserhardt) |