TY - BOOK AU - Stifter,Adalbert TI - Bunte Steine: Ein Festgeschenk AV - PT PY - 2009/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Short stories, German N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunte_Steine Wikipedia page about this book: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunte_Steine; Release date is 2009-07-31; Granit -- Kalkstein -- Turmalin -- Bergkristall -- Katzensilber -- Bergmilch; Produced by Norbert H. Langkau, Daniel Kraft, Jana Srna and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net; Original publication data not identified N2 - "Bunte Steine: Ein Festgeschenk" by Adalbert Stifter is a collection of six stories published in 1853. The work includes Stifter's famous preface on the "gentle law," which argues that quiet natural phenomena—like growing grain and shimmering stars—are as significant as dramatic events like thunderstorms and volcanoes. Though subtitled "a holiday gift" and featuring young protagonists, these tales explore profound themes through seemingly simple observations. Each story is named after a different stone, reflecting Stifter's belief in finding greatness within small, everyday moments of nature and human life. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/29553 ER -