On Tangled Paths: An Everyday Berlin Story (Angel Classics) - Softcover

Fontane, Theodor

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9780946162772: On Tangled Paths: An Everyday Berlin Story (Angel Classics)
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ISBN 10: 0946162778 ISBN 13: 9780946162772
Publisher: Angel Books, 2011

Synopsis

"In 1870s Berlin, an aristocratic officer in a glamorous cavalry regiment and a seamstress supporting herself and her invalid foster-mother with piecework defy convention by falling seriously in love."--P. [4] of cover.

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About the Author

Theodor Fontane (1819-98)lived much of his life in Berlin, first as a journalist (covering the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71), and turning to the writing of fiction at the age of 58. He is the author of 17 novels and novellas, six of them set in Berlin.

Review

The immense pleasures of the novel lie in the author's cool-headed approach to what, in other hands, could have been a forgettable melodrama. . . . The book is filled with comparable moments of small facts transfigured into something magical. --The New Yorker

As much a psychological as a social realist, the author is interested in the emotional conflicts that arise between individual desire and social conditioning, class expectations and personality. --Review of Contemporary Fiction

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Publisher
Angel Books
Publication date
2011
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0946162778
ISBN 13 
9780946162772
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
192
Rating
  • 3.25 out of 5 stars
    3,773 ratings by Goodreads

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