The Jew's Beech

Author: Annette Von Droste-Hulshoff; Lionel Thomas (Translator); Doris Thomas (Translator)

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Price : 14.99 AUD
ISBN : 9781847499189
Publisher : Alma Classics
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Weight (g) : 0.131542
Publication date : 15 April 2024
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Author : Annette Von Droste-Hulshoff; Lionel Thomas (Translator); Doris Thomas (Translator)
Series : Alma Classics 101 Pages Ser.
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Language : English
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Based on a true story, The Jew's Beech centres on two brutal murders in rural Westphalia - the first of a local forester and the second of a Jewish moneylender near a beech tree - and the impact these events have on the life of Friedrich Mergel, a local herdsman with a turbulent family history.

A prototype of the murder mystery and a thoughtful examination of village society, this intriguing novella contains hints of the Gothic and the uncanny - ominous thunderstorms, mysterious disappearances, eerie doppelgängers and grisly discoveries in the depths of the forest - as well as a famously ambiguous climax.