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The Children of the World

by Paul Heyse

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Behind a shoemaker's shop in Berlin's Latin Quarter, a cramped courtyard brings together working life, artistic memories and private longing. Paul Heyse's novel opens with Gottfried Feyertag's modest house, whose tenants include a retired singer and actress. On a stifling summer night, a young doctor pauses beneath bean vines before finding Fräulein Christiane absorbed in a book he owns. The careful description of rooms, trades and small habits gives this English translation of German fiction a closely observed urban setting.

Elsewhere, Leah tends a withdrawn woman who fills her days with sewing after an accident. Her suffering prompts a discussion about faith, practical help and the care of the mind as well as the body. Mohr argues that human effort must accompany hopes of divine assistance.

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Paul Heyse built a wide-ranging German literary career as a novelist, poet, translator, and dramatist, earning the 1910 Nobel Prize in Literature. Mary of Magdala is the English title of his five-act historical drama Maria von Magdala, a work that places its central figure amid the spiritual and civic tensions of the ancient setting.

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Pages
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English
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