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Limburg, Eldonejo Limburger Vereinsdruckerei GmbH
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Publisher: Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott Company Publication date: 1889 Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there.
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LibraryThing member hbergander
The discrepancy between hedonists and Philistines, old as the world, in a version of German Romanticism
LibraryThing member starbox
Maybe I'm a total Philistine and am missing something...maybe (surely there HAS to be??) a deeper hidden meaning. It looked readable...wanderings of a young man who finds love...a German classic.
It is, in my opinion, utterly unreadable rot. The hopeful beginning, where our idle youth leaves home
But it then morphs into a ridiculous dream-like sequence, where anything is possible. Madmen, disappearing painters, murder... It all began to wash over me, and making it through to p 121 was an achievement. Total drivel.
It is, in my opinion, utterly unreadable rot. The hopeful beginning, where our idle youth leaves home
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with his violin for fun and freedom promised much.But it then morphs into a ridiculous dream-like sequence, where anything is possible. Madmen, disappearing painters, murder... It all began to wash over me, and making it through to p 121 was an achievement. Total drivel.
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LibraryThing member Gypsy_Boy
A very slight book, more a novella or even a long short story, that reminded me of Candide a little. The book was published in 1826 and is considered a masterpiece of German romanticism. A young man rejects his father’s trade and life and embarks on a (brief) life of wanderlust, seeking love and
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fulfillment. He, of course, finds them both, but not easily. The writing is good, the story very lighthearted: our hero falls into a job as gardener at a Viennese palace where he falls in love with the duke's daughter. Because she is therefore unattainable, and because his wanderlust is so strong, he flees to Italy, only to eventually discover that she is only adopted and thus, in fact, attainable. Indeed, at points, the story distinctly reminded me of Shakespeare’s “As You Like It” (among other plays). Nature plays a strong supporting role and the carefree young man, portrayed as both uncomplicated and naïve, is impossible to dislike. The book is also well-known for including many brief poems and lyrics by Eichendorff, who was highly regarded for his poetry. Show Less
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German
Original publication date
1826 (Berlin, Vereinsbuchhandlung; zusammen mit "Das Marmorbild")