Theodor Fontane

Title: Jenseit des Tweed. Bilder und Briefe aus Schottland. Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC. The HISTORY OF BRITAIN & IRELAND collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. As well as historical works, this collection includes geographies, travelogues, and titles covering periods of competition and cooperation among the people of Great Britain and Ireland. Works also explore the countries' relations with France, Germany, the Low Countries, Denmark, and Scandinavia. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Fontane, Theodor; 1860. 8 . 10370.c.26.

Opposites attract, and Helmut Holk and Christine Arne, the attractive married couple at the center of this engrossing novel by one of Germany's greatest novelists, could not be more unalike. Christine is a serious soul from a devoutly religious background. She is brooding and beautiful and devoted to her husband and their two children. Helmut is lighthearted and pleasure-loving and largely content to defer to his wife's deeper feelings and better wisdom. They live in a beautiful large house overlooking the sea, which they built themselves, and have been happily married for twenty-three years-only of late a certain tension has crept into their dealings with each other. Little jokes, casual endearments, long-meditated plans: they all hit a raw nerve. How a couple can slowly drift apart until one day they find themselves in a situation that is beyond recall, from which they cannot go back, is at the heart of this timeless story of everyday life. Theodor Fontane's great gift is to tell the story effectively in his characters' own words, listening to how they talk and fail to talk to each other, watching them turn away from their own true feelings as much as from each other. Irretrievable is a nuanced, urbane, affectionate, and profoundly humane reckoning with the blindness of love.

Diese Erzählung Fontanes führt uns in das Tangermünde kurz nach der Reformation. Die Liebe, die das mutterlose Mädchen Grete im Elternhaus nicht findet, gibt ihr der Nachbarssohn. Als halbe Kinder noch flüchten sie gemeinsam aus ihren Elternhäusern. Sie müssen jedoch erkennen, dass sie dem Leben, so allein auf sich gestellt, noch nicht gewachsen sind. Das Nachwort enthält außer einer kurzen Biografie des Dichters noch "Paul Heyse über Theodor Fontane" aus der Einleitung zu "Grete Minde" im Band 5 der Sammlung "Neuer Deutscher Novellenschatz" sowie als Beilagen zwei Berichte, die in der Novelle verarbeitet sind. Dazu sind im Heft sehr ausführliche Anmerkungen, die für Schüler und Lehrer eine gute Hilfe bei der Beschäftigung mit der Novelle darstellen.