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The Romance of the Canoness

A Life-History

by Paul Heyse

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A summer visit to Brandenburg in 1864 begins with a traveler waiting for a carriage in a quiet provincial town. His walk takes him past shaded avenues to a lake, a decorated steamer and an almshouse with its small chapel. A silent man at an open window and an elderly woman on the steps give the scene a human focus beneath its stillness.

Paul Heyse's novel develops through personal recollection as well as close observation of place. In a later account, a tutor describes three years near a country parsonage, his attachment to a lost love and his friendship with a pastor whose theological studies challenge inherited beliefs. Family duties, questions of vocation and unresolved feeling share the page.

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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
171
Language
English
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