Im Kampf um die Ideale, die Geschichte eines Suchenden : ein Gegenwartsroman
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"Im Kampf um die Ideale, die Geschichte eines Suchenden" by Georg Heinrich Bonne is a novel written in the early 20th century. It follows a socially driven first-person seeker—an overburdened humanitarian—who sets out to regain hope and clarity after confronting urban misery, hypocrisy, and spiritual emptiness. Blending travel, social critique, and inner quest, it explores how love, duty, and reform might tangibly uplift a suffering people. The opening of the novel frames
the tale as a life-work manuscript entrusted on a deathbed, then turns to the narrator, exhausted by poverty, sickness, and lovelessness in the modern city. He retreats to the heath, encounters in vision “Hope” and “Duty,” and decides to sail away to see his country’s ills from afar. Leaving an icebound Hamburg, he feels both bitterness at civic and religious failures and liberation at sea, even exalting the North Sea’s harsh, healing power. A stop in Antwerp contrasts commerce with art; Rubens’ Descent from the Cross restores his sense of love’s force, while the Inquisition’s relics horrify him. Back aboard, he shows compassion to hungry dockworkers, sketches a diverse set of fellow passengers, and voices geopolitical unease. At dinner he argues passionately for temperance, cleaner rivers, and a plan to decentralize cities through public land and better transport. The section closes with memories of a mother’s moral counsel and his schoolboy turn from drinking-culture to literature, marking the start of his long struggle against prevailing habits. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Bonne, Georg Heinrich, 1859-1945 |
|---|---|
| Title | Im Kampf um die Ideale, die Geschichte eines Suchenden : ein Gegenwartsroman |
| Original Publication | München: Verlag von Ernst Reinhardt, 1917. |
| Credits | The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net |
| Language | German |
| LoC Class | PT: Language and Literatures: Germanic, Scandinavian, and Icelandic literatures |
| Subject | Temperance -- Fiction |
| Subject | German fiction -- 20th century |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 77887 |
| Release Date | Feb 8, 2026 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 232 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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