A young woman from a noble family fallen on hard times, Leonore Griebel marries an older businessman. Brought up on the romantic stories of her ancestors, Leonore must find a way to reconcile herself to the marriage, her new sonNand the house.
A young woman from a noble family fallen on hard times, Leonore Griebel marries an older businessman. Brought up on the romantic stories of her ancestors, Leonore must find a way to reconcile herself to the marriage, her new sonNand the house.
A young woman from a noble family fallen on hard times, Leonore Griebel marries an older businessman. Brought up on the romantic stories of her ancestors, Leonore must find a way to reconcile herself to the marriage, her new son and ... the house.
Hermann Stehr (1864-1940) was a Silesian author of over thirty novels and novellas. He was awarded the Bauernfeld Prize (1910), the Fastenrath Prize (1919), the Schiller Prize (1919), the Rathenau Prize (1930), the Wartburg Rose (1932), the Goethe Medal for Art and Science (1932) and the Goethe Prize of Frankfurt-am-Main (1933), and appointed as a founding member of the Prussian Literary Academy (1926).
"Germany possesses in Stehr an artist with profound powers of portrayal. There are no precursors to his special style." - Gerhart Hauptmann, Nobel Laureate in Literature (1912)
Kerry Nitz is founder of K A Nitz publishing and since 2012 has published over 20 new English translations of works of fiction never before translated into English. He is the leading translator for the early 20th Century German authors Hermann Stehr and Georg Engel.
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