German Fiction

Keller, Storm, Fontane and Goethe

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Gottfried Keller, Theodor Storm, Theodor Fontane

• Publisher: Aeneas Press
• Year: 2026
• Topic: Literature
• eBook ISBN:
  9785486892912
• Subtopic: Classics
• Index: Literature

Four masters of German prose fiction across a century, each with a critical introduction: Goethe's Sorrows of Werther, the book that made a generation weep; Keller's comic Banner of the Upright Seven, about Swiss craftsmen and their politics; Storm's Rider on the White Horse, a dike-reeve's legend of the North Sea coast; and Fontane's Trials and Tribulations, a Berlin love affair across the class line that both lovers know cannot last. Fontane came to the novel at sixty and wrote the best German prose of his century. Fifty-six plates by painters including Munch and Menzel follow the century's streets, promenades and cloisters, the same northern world these four novelists set their stories in.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Copyright
• German Fiction
• The Novel in Germany
• J. W. Von Goethe. Bayard Taylor
• Book I
• Book II
• The Editor to the Reader
• Gottfried Keller. Muriel Almon
• By John Firman Coar
• By Calvin Thomas
• The Banner of the Upright Seven
• Margarete Münsterberg
• Criticism and Interpretation. By Adolf Stern
• The Rider on the White Horse
• Theodor Fontane. Translated from the Fourteenth Edition
• Criticisms and Interpretations. I. By Richard M. Meyer
• II. By S. C. De Soissons
• Chapter I
• Chapter II
• Chapter III
• Chapter IV
• Chapter V
• Chapter VI
• Chapter VII
• Chapter VIII
• Chapter IX
• Chapter X
• Chapter XI
• Chapter XII
• Chapter XIII
• Chapter XIV
• Chapter XV
• Chapter XVI
• Chapter XVII
• Chapter XVIII
• Chapter XIX
• Chapter XX
• Chapter XXI
• Chapter XXII
• Chapter XXIII
• Chapter XXIV
• Chapter XXV
• Chapter XXVI
• About the Author