BDeBooks
Seldwyla Folks by Gottfried Keller, book cover
World Classics PDF EPUB

Seldwyla Folks

Three Singular Tales

by Gottfried Keller

Downloads
Under 100
Pages
157
Download

About this book

In the invented Swiss town of Seldwyla, respectability can conceal a narrow and joyless view of life. Gottfried Keller's three tales bring that tension into stories of work, rivalry and attachment, translated into English by Wolf von Schierbrand. The collection includes Three Decent Combmakers, Dietegen, and Romeo and Juliet of the Village. Its opening turns to a combmaking workshop and questions the virtue of people who earn carefully, avoid debts and measure goodness by keeping out of trouble.

The passage from Dietegen moves into a cemetery at night, where the frightened Kuengolt receives food and protection from a young man whose loyalty she understands differently from him. That gap between private judgment and another person's hopes gives the scene its emotional weight.

Contents

About the author

Gottfried Keller - BDeBooks
Gottfried Keller

Gottfried Keller was a Swiss poet and fiction writer associated with nineteenth-century German-language realism. His linked story cycle Die Leute von Seldwyla portrays an imagined Swiss town through satire, civic argument, failed schemes, work, courtship, and changing fortunes.

More by Gottfried Keller

See all 5 books

More from this genre

See all

Discussion

No comments yet. Share a thought, a question or a favourite passage.

Copyright concern? Read our DMCA policy

Read or download

Public domain book This work is in the public domain and free of copyright. Anyone may read, download and share it.

No download needed. Text reader: adjustable size, font and theme.
  • EPUB 256 KB Best for iPhone, Android, Kobo and tablets
  • KINDLE Send to Kindle Kindle devices and the Kindle app. Uses the same EPUB file. Send
    1. Download the EPUB file to this device.
    2. Open Amazon's Send to Kindle page, sign in, and add the file. Open Send to Kindle (opens in a new tab)

    On a phone: open the downloaded EPUB and share it to the Kindle app.

    You can also email the file to your Kindle address (it ends in @kindle.com) from an email address you approved in your Amazon account.

  • PDF 1007 KB Best for computers, laptops and printing

Downloads start right away. How to open EPUB on your phone

Book facts

Reading time
About 6 hours
Pages
157
Language
English
Formats
PDF, EPUB, Read online