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100 1 _aKahlenberg, Hans von,
_d1870-1957
240 1 0 _aNixchen. Finnish
245 1 0 _aTenhotar
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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_2rdacarrier
500 _aRelease date is 2025-06-27
508 _aTuula Temonen
520 _a"Tenhotar" by Hans von Kahlenberg is an epistolary novel written in the early 20th century. Through a correspondence between a romantic country nobleman and a skeptical city writer, it examines love, purity, and modern moral unrest. The story centers on Achim von Wustrow’s idealized devotion to the young Mathilde and the counterpoint of Herbert Gröndahl’s worldly, often cynical entanglements with fashionable Berlin society. The opening of the novel unfolds as alternating letters: Achim writes rapturously of first love, recounting a chaste mountain encounter with Mathilde, his respectful courtship within her family, and his resolve to be worthy of her innocence, even pressing for an early marriage. In sharp contrast, Herbert narrates how two schoolgirls seek him out, then begins a clandestine affair with one he nicknames “Hempukka,” dissecting her family’s ambitions and his own jaded attitudes while exposing the hypocrisies of urban life. Achim dreams of shared readings, patriotic duty, orderly home life, and fatherhood, guarding Mathilde from dubious influences. Herbert, meanwhile, oscillates between indulgence and moral disgust, turning their liaison into a study of decadence. This early exchange sets up the novel’s central tension between idealism and cynicism, country virtue and city corruption. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cHelsinki: Minerva Oy, 1919
653 _aGermany -- Fiction
653 _aEpistolary fiction
653 _aMan-woman relationships -- Fiction
700 1 _aVuorinen, Huvi,
_d1883-1965
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76406
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