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Availability:In StockContributor:Theodor Fontane, Peter James Bowman (Translator)Series:Pushkin Press ClassicsPublish date:2/24/2026Pages:208
Language:EnglishPublisher:Pushkin Press ClassicsISBN-13:9781805331612ISBN-10:1805331612UPC:9781805331612Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:World Literature, Historical, ClassicsBook Topic:Germany, 19th CenturyWeight:0.8113Product ID:SCYMYZWGDG
PERFECT FOR FANS OF JANE AUSTEN: A seamstress and cavalry officer fall in love across class divides in this "sparkling, tender, delicately ironic" portrait of 19th-century Berlin (New York Review of Books).

"A joy for its humanity, subtlety and visual immediacy."-- Independent

From Germany's greatest 19th-century novelist, this realist masterpiece interrogates the strict social codes of a rapidly changing era through a wistful struggle between love and obligation.

Lene is an orphaned seamstress; Botho is a nobleman and an officer in one of the Prussian army's most glittering regiments. But despite their differences of class and education, they fall quickly in love, spending a summer together in a clear-eyed, tender love affair before society's demands force them cruelly apart. Now married to a wealthy cousin, Botho learns years later that Lene too has an opportunity to marry. Her ex-lover must choose between holding on to regret or letting go of the past - along with the possibility of getting Lene herself back.

Unusually progressive for literature of the period, this masterwork of Fontane's portrays a love story that defies class boundaries, full of tender irony and vivid evocations of a quickly expanding Berlin and its bucolic surroundings. Fontane bring sharp psychological insight to his achingly sympathetic portrayal of two lovers torn between their hearts and the obligations of social circumstance.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Pushkin Press ClassicsISBN-13:9781805331612ISBN-10:1805331612UPC:9781805331612Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:World Literature, Historical, ClassicsBook Topic:Germany, 19th CenturyWeight:0.8113Product ID:SCYMYZWGDG
Theodor Fontane (1819-98) was born in a small Prussian town and then moved to Berlin. He worked for most of his life as a journalist, and spent many years in London as a foreign correspondent for the Prussian intelligence agency. He began writing novels at the age of fifty-seven, and these works earned him an enduring reputation in German letters. Several of his realist masterpieces are published or forthcoming from Pushkin Press, including No Way Back and Effi Briest.

Peter James Bowman holds a PhD in German Literature from Cambridge. He has translated works by Stefan Zweig and Johanna Spyri as well as Theodor Fontane.
Publisher: Pushkin Press Classics

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