TY - BOOK AU - Keller,Gottfried TI - Die Leute von Seldwyla — Band 2 AV - PT PY - 2009/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Short stories KW - Germany -- Social life and customs -- Fiction N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seldwyla_Folks Wikipedia page about this book: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Leute_von_Seldwyla; Release date is 2009-02-09; Kleider machen Leute -- Der Schmied seines Glückes -- Die missbrauchten Liebesbriefe -- Dietegen -- Das verlorene Lachen; E-text prepared by Norbert H. Langkau, Evelyn Kawrykow, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net); Original publication data not identified N2 - "Die Leute von Seldwyla — Band 2" by Gottfried Keller is a collection of novellas published between 1873-1875. Set in the fictional Swiss town of Seldwyla, these stories portray a community of charming but reckless citizens who live beyond their means, speculate foolishly, and thrive in youth before falling into bankruptcy. Through satirical comedies and one tragic adaptation of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet," Keller crafts vivid portraits of human folly and occasional redemption, exploring themes of youthful carelessness, social criticism, and the consequences of temperament in this masterwork of nineteenth-century German realism. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/28042 ER -