Die Majoratsherren by Freiherr von Ludwig Achim Arnim

"Die Majoratsherren" by Freiherr von Ludwig Achim Arnim is a novella written around 1818. Set before the French Revolution in a German city, it follows a young heir who returns home after his mother's death but refuses to live in his inherited palace. Instead, he takes a modest room where he secretly observes a young woman named Esther. As hidden family secrets emerge involving murder, betrayal, and greed, the lives of three heirs to the estate become fatally intertwined across multiple narrative layers. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Arnim, Ludwig Achim, Freiherr von, 1781-1831
Illustrator Kubin, Alfred, 1877-1959
Title Die Majoratsherren
Note Wikipedia page about this book: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Majoratsherren
Credits Produced by Jens Sadowski
Reading Level Reading ease score: 70.6 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.
Language German
LoC Class PT: Language and Literatures: Germanic, Scandinavian, and Icelandic literatures
Subject German fiction -- 19th century
Category Text
EBook-No. 50833
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Most Recently Updated Oct 22, 2024
Copyright Status Public domain in the USA.
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