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Berthold Auerbach

LandolinBerthold Auerbach Landolin CHAPTER I The spring has come again to the hills and valleys of our home. The day awakes, a breeze moves strongly through the forest, as if its task were to carry away the lingering night; the birds begin to twitter, and here and there an early lark utters his n...

Joseph in the Snow, and The Clockmaker. In Three Volumes. Vol. III.Berthold Auerbach Joseph in the Snow, and The Clockmaker. In Three Volumes. Vol. III CHAPTER XXIII. THE FIRST NAIL KNOCKED IN, PEACE IN THE HOUSE, AND THE FIRST SUNDAY GUEST Next day Annele seemed quite satisfied again with Franzl...

On the Heights: A NovelOn the Heights: A Novel BOOK I CHAPTER I Early mass was being celebrated in the chapel attached to the royal summer palace.The palace stood on a slight eminence in the center of the park. The eastern slope of the hill had been planted with vineyards, and its crest was cover...

Villa Eden: The Country-House on the RhineBOOK ICHAPTER I. THE APPARITION CHAPTER II "UP THE RIVER." CHAPTER III. DRINKING NEW WINE CHAPTER IV. COMRADES WITHOUT COMRADESHIP CHAPTER V. THE OLD NOBLEMAN AND HIS BEAUTIFUL WIFE CHAPTER VI. THE RECEPTION DAY CHAPTER VII. AN ILLUMINATING FLAS...

Edelweiss: A StoryBerthold Auerbach Edelweiss: A Story Leontopodium Alpinum"There is a flower known to botanists, one of the same genus with our summer plant called 'Life-Everlasting,' a Gnaphalium like that, which grows on the most inaccessible cliffs of the Tyrolese mountains, where the chamois...

Waldfried: A NovelWaldfried: A Novel BOOK FIRST CHAPTER I In a letter bringing me his greetings for the New Year, 1870, my eldest son thus wrote to me from America:"We have been sorely tried of late. Wolfgang, our only remaining child, lay for weeks at death's door. I avoided mentioning this to y...

Joseph in the Snow, and The Clockmaker. In Three Volumes. Vol. I.Berthold Auerbach Joseph in the Snow, and The Clockmaker. In Three Volumes. Vol. I EPITAPH "Here lies a little child, lost in the forest deeps. —At midnight from the slumbering fold he strayed;But the lost lamb was found by One who ...

Black Forest Village StoriesBlack Forest Village Stories THE GAWK I see you now, my fine fellow, as large as life, with your yellow hair cropped very short, except in the neck, where a long tail remains as if you had cut yourself after the pattern of a plough-horse. You are staring straight at me...

Joseph in the Snow, and The Clockmaker. In Three Volumes. Vol. II.Berthold Auerbach Joseph in the Snow, and The Clockmaker. In Three Volumes. Vol. II Introduction There is a house on the declivity of a hill, on which the morning sun long lingers, and the eyes of those who gaze on this house spark...