Unterm Birnbaum by Theodor Fontane
"Unterm Birnbaum" by Theodor Fontane is a novella written between 1883 and 1885. Abel and Ursel Hradscheck run a small shop with an inn in a village, burdened by mounting debts. When Abel discovers an old soldier's corpse buried under his pear tree, he devises a dark plan to escape financial ruin. The story follows the psychological unraveling of the couple after committing their crime, as suspicion grows and guilt becomes unbearable
in their increasingly haunted home. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Fontane, Theodor, 1819-1898 |
|---|---|
| Title | Unterm Birnbaum |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unterm_Birnbaum Wikipedia page about this book: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unterm_Birnbaum |
| Credits |
Produced by Markus Brenner and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file made from scans of public domain material at Klassik Stiftung Weimar / Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek.) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 81.7 (6th grade). Easy to read. |
| Language | German |
| LoC Class | PT: Language and Literatures: Germanic, Scandinavian, and Icelandic literatures |
| Subject | Detective and mystery stories, German |
| Subject | Germany -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction |
| Subject | Germany, Northern -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 26686 |
| Release Date | Sep 21, 2008 |
| Most Recently Updated | Jan 4, 2021 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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