Wikipedia page about this book: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Im_Sonnenschein

Release date is 2007-04-03

Norbert H. Langkau, Thorsten Kontowski and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team

"Im Sonnenschein: Novelle" by Theodor Storm is a novella written in the mid-1850s. The story tells of a failed romance between a merchant's daughter and a French captain through two contrasting passages separated by sixty years. The first depicts their youthful courtship, while the second reveals the tragedy from the perspective of an elderly relative standing beside the young woman's decayed coffin. Through extreme temporal and narrative distance, Storm explores how love was destroyed by a stern father's refusal. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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