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Martin Salander and A Village Romeo and Juliet

Gottfried Keller author Ronald Taylor translator Kenneth Halwas translator

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Alma Books Ltd

Publishing:25th Jun '26

£9.99

This title is due to be published on 25th June, and will be despatched as soon as possible.

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Praised 'by his admirable sense of place and atmosphere' (TLS) and by its 'deeply impressive in its evocative simplicity' (The Irish Times), Martin Salander is the only English translation available of this timeless Swiss-German classic. Here accompanied by A Village Romeo and Juliet, which is widely considered as one of the finest examples of nineteenth-century poetic realism.

Martin Salander, one of the Gottfried Keller's most famous novels, is here accompanied by A Village Romeo and Juliet. Both novellas are considered finest examples of nineteenth-century poetic realism.Martin Salander, one of the Gottfried Keller's most famous novels, traces the progress of an impoverished idealist towards becoming a self-sufficient, deeply humane individual, offering at the same time a reflection on the social and political changes of the time and a compassionate picture of a family which, for the author, is a mirror of the Free Switzerland he had hoped to help build. Martin Salander is here accompanied by A Village Romeo and Juliet, a bitter-sweet tragedy telling the tale of two young lovers kept apart by a family feud. Inspired by the story of two real-life sweethearts and set in rural Switzerland, it evokes the overwhelming beauty of young love and nature, but is ultimately pessimistic about the possibility of such beauty surviving in the real world. Both novellas are considered finest examples of nineteenth-century poetic realism.

ISBN: 9781847495167

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: unknown

288 pages