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100 1 _aBonne, Georg Heinrich,
_d1859-1945
245 1 0 _aIm Kampf um die Ideale, die Geschichte eines Suchenden
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2026
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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500 _aRelease date is 2026-02-08
508 _aThe Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net
520 _a"Im Kampf um die Ideale, die Geschichte eines Suchenden" by Georg Heinrich Bonne is a novel written in the early 20th century. It follows a socially driven first-person seeker—an overburdened humanitarian—who sets out to regain hope and clarity after confronting urban misery, hypocrisy, and spiritual emptiness. Blending travel, social critique, and inner quest, it explores how love, duty, and reform might tangibly uplift a suffering people. The opening of the novel frames the tale as a life-work manuscript entrusted on a deathbed, then turns to the narrator, exhausted by poverty, sickness, and lovelessness in the modern city. He retreats to the heath, encounters in vision “Hope” and “Duty,” and decides to sail away to see his country’s ills from afar. Leaving an icebound Hamburg, he feels both bitterness at civic and religious failures and liberation at sea, even exalting the North Sea’s harsh, healing power. A stop in Antwerp contrasts commerce with art; Rubens’ Descent from the Cross restores his sense of love’s force, while the Inquisition’s relics horrify him. Back aboard, he shows compassion to hungry dockworkers, sketches a diverse set of fellow passengers, and voices geopolitical unease. At dinner he argues passionately for temperance, cleaner rivers, and a plan to decentralize cities through public land and better transport. The section closes with memories of a mother’s moral counsel and his schoolboy turn from drinking-culture to literature, marking the start of his long struggle against prevailing habits. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cMünchen: Verlag von Ernst Reinhardt, 1917
653 _aTemperance -- Fiction
653 _aGerman fiction -- 20th century
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77887
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