000 02766cam a22003733u 4500
001 77915
003 UtSlPG
005 20260610134815.0
006 m
007 cr n
008 260607r20261884utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d
040 _aUtSlPG
041 7 _aen
_2iso639-1
050 4 _aPZ
100 1 _aHoffmann, Franz,
_d1814-1882
245 1 0 _aAdelbert and Bastel
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2026
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aRelease date is 2026-02-11
520 _a"Adelbert and Bastel" by Franz Hoffmann is a didactic children's novel written in the mid-19th century. It contrasts a wealthy Hamburg merchant’s imaginative son with a charcoal-burner’s sturdy boy from the Harz to examine vocation, class, and character under the moral theme “Every man in his place.” Adventure and misadventure teach prudence, humility, and industry, while Christian charity frames the adults’ guidance. The opening of the novel follows Adelbert, indulged yet well-meaning, whose romantic fancies repeatedly collide with reality: a failed “Robinson Crusoe” experiment in his garden hut and a storm at sea that ends in seasickness. Granted a spring journey to the Harz for his birthday, he is dazzled by nature, wanders off alone, gets lost, falls into a stream, and is taken in by the kindly charcoal-burner Severin, his wife, and their capable son Bastel. Bastel guides him through forest life—landing a giant trout, snaring a blackbird, and ferreting rabbits—before a fierce storm drives them back to the cottage. The next day Adelbert’s bungled attempt at splitting logs cures his wish to be a forester, just as his anxious parents arrive; grateful, they seek to repay the family’s kindness. Herr Brockmann offers to educate Bastel in Hamburg, and after a tender family debate the parents consent. Chapter three then begins Bastel’s transplant to the city, where he is awed and awkward amid wealth and new customs, while Adelbert—now on home ground—helps him adjust. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cLondon: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1884
653 _aMountain life -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aAdventure stories
653 _aKindness -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aCity and town life -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aYouth -- Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aParent and child -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aImagination -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aGermany -- Juvenile fiction
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77915
999 _c118635
_d118635