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100 1 _aRantzau, Adeline zu,
_d1867-1927
240 1 4 _aDer Dritte. Finnish
245 1 0 _aKolmas
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2026
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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500 _aRelease date is 2026-04-19
508 _aTuula Temonen and Johanna Kankaanpää
520 _a"Kolmas" by Adeline zu Rantzau is a novel written in the early 20th century. It follows Mara von Doren, a Munich painter; her fiancé Peter Rasmussen, a former musician now chasing success as a writer; and Peter’s fragile friend Knud Hansen, whose sudden arrival as the “third” unsettles their hard-won equilibrium. Set between bohemian Munich and the North Sea coast, the story explores art, poverty, loyalty, and the strain that ambition and dependency place on love. The opening of the novel introduces Mara and Peter in a crowded Munich tavern, bound by work, fatigue, and Peter’s hope of winning a major prize for his nearly finished novel. The next evening Peter brings in Knud—starving and exhausted—whom Mara quietly feeds and shelters with the help of their gentle neighbor, the musician Augustin Häberle, as Peter reads from his manuscript and the trio debate whether art needs “blood” as well as “sweat.” Weeks pass in convalescence, silent meals, and nightly music, while an unspoken triangle forms; Knud presses for a restorative retreat to the North Sea, and a sudden gambling win funds the journey. Peter and Knud depart, leaving Mara with foreboding and Häberle’s counsel to stand firm, and the section closes with a brief look back at Mara’s Schleswig-Holstein roots, her stubborn path to painting in Munich, and the family scandal of her engagement. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cPorvoo: Werner Söderström Osakeyhtiö, 1923
653 _aGerman fiction -- Translations into Finnish
700 1 _aVoionmaa, Eino,
_d1872-1928
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78493
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