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Rock crystal : a Christmas tale / Adalbert Stifter ; translated from the German by Elizabeth Mayer and Marianne Moore.
LIBRA Special PT2525 .B4 1999
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stifter, Adalbert, 1805-1868.
- Standardized Title:
- Bergkristall. English
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Missing children--Europe--Fiction.
- Missing children.
- Village communities--Europe--Fiction.
- Village communities.
- Mountains--Europe--Fiction.
- Mountains.
- Faith--Fiction.
- Faith.
- Europe.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 78 pages ; 17 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Pushkin Press, 1999.
- Summary:
- This seemingly simple fable of two children lost in an icy landscape is eloquent in its innocence but is implicit with an unremitting consciousness of the fragility of life and the inevitability of death. The Rock Crystals of the title are shards of ice of the glacier that dominates the landscape that Stifter describes.
- Adalbert Stifter grew up in the idyllic landscape of Bohemia and his evocation of the mountains and seasons is an outstanding feature of his writing. Educated in Vienna, he published his first novel in 1840 and died in 1868.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Stifter, Adalbert, 1805-1868. Bergkristall. English. Rock crystal.
- ISBN:
- 1901285278
- 9781901285277
- OCLC:
- 43718752
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