The Jew's Beech (Oneworld Classics) - Softcover

Von Droste-H�lshoff, Annette

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9781847493552: The Jew's Beech (Oneworld Classics)

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ISBN 10: 1847493556 ISBN 13: 9781847493552

Publisher: Alma Classics, 2017

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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 doppelg�ngers and grisly discoveries in the depths of the forest – as well as a famously ambiguous climax.

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About the Author:

Annette von Droste-H�lshoff (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.

Review:

A highly original fusion of thriller-writing, social analysis and meditation on the nature of truth. * The Spectator *

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