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Der Gehülfe by Robert Walser

Walser, Robert, 1878-1956

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"Der Gehülfe" by Robert Walser is a novel written in 1907 and published in 1908. Twenty-four-year-old Joseph Marti takes a position as assistant to Carl Tobler, an inventor living in a lakeside villa with his family. Over six months, Joseph witnesses the slow unraveling of the household as Tobler's inventions fail to find buyers and debts mount. Between garden parties and business trips, the gap widens between the family's elegant lifestyle and their desperate financial reality. ... Read more

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AuthorWalser, Robert, 1878-1956
TitleDer Gehülfe
NoteWikipedia page about this book: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der_Geh%C3%BClfe
CreditsProduced by Jana Srna and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net
Reading LevelReading ease score: 79.4 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.
LanguageGerman
LoC ClassPT: Language and Literatures: Germanic, Scandinavian, and Icelandic literatures
SubjectSwiss fiction (German)
CategoryText
eBook-No.27598
Release DateDec 23, 2008
Last UpdateJan 4, 2021
CopyrightPublic domain in the USA.
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