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"Bahnwärter Thiel" by Gerhart Hauptmann is a novella written in 1887 and published in 1888. This naturalist work follows Thiel, a dutiful railway watchman haunted by his first wife's death. When his domineering second wife mistreats his son Tobias, Thiel retreats into visions while struggling between loyalty and guilt. His isolated world begins to fracture when family life invades his sacred workspace, setting in motion a devastating chain of events that will test the boundaries of his increasingly fragile mind. ... Read more
About this eBook
| Author | Hauptmann, Gerhart, 1862-1946 |
|---|---|
| Title | Bahnwärter Thiel |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahnw%C3%A4rter_Thiel_(novella) |
| Contents | Bahnwärter Thiel -- Der Apostel. |
| Credits | Produced by Jana Srna, Norbert H. Langkau and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 81.8 (6th grade). Easy to read. |
| Language | German |
| LoC Class | PT: Language and Literatures: Germanic, Scandinavian, and Icelandic literatures |
| Subject | German fiction -- 19th century |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 29376 |
| Release Date | Jul 11, 2009 |
| Last Update | Mar 4, 2012 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 1856 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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