A01=Annette Von Droste-Hulshoff
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Die Judenbuche
doppelganger
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gothic
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Westphalia
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Product details
- ISBN 9781847499189
- Weight: 129g
- Dimensions: 126 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 15 Apr 2024
- Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Based on a true story, The Jew’s Beech centres on two brutal murders in rural Westphalia – the first of a local forester and the second of a Jewish moneylender near a beech tree – and the impact these events have on the life of Friedrich Mergel, a local herdsman with a turbulent family history.
A prototype of the murder mystery and a thoughtful examination of village society, this intriguing novella contains hints of the Gothic and the uncanny – ominous thunderstorms, mysterious disappearances, eerie doppelgängers and grisly discoveries in the depths of the forest – as well as a famously ambiguous climax.
Annette von Droste-Hülshoff (1797–1848) is considered one of the most important German poets of the nineteenth century. Her classic novella The Jew’s Beech is her only completed work of prose fiction.
