This is one of Stifter's great epic works, a most sensitive account of the formative years in the life of Heinrich, a student of natural sciences, born into a bourgeois environment, but influenced and gently guided by a nobleman, the old Baron von Risach.
Verlagstext:Ebenso großartig wie sensibel erzählt Stifter die schwierige Liebesbeziehung der an äußeren Reizen armen Brigitta und dem sie um ihres Wesens willen liebenden Gutsherrn Stephan. Als dieser sie betrügt, gelingt es ihr, den inneren Reichtum
Seemingly the simplest of stories—a passing anecdote of village life— Rock Crystal opens up into a tale of almost unendurable suspense. This jewel-like novella by the writer that Thomas Mann praised as "one of the most extraordinary, the most enigmati
