Background
Storm was born in Bloomington, California to German parents who were refugees fleeing anti-socialist fervor in Germany following the failed Revolutions of 1848.
( After his mother becomes exhausted wheeling him around ...)
After his mother becomes exhausted wheeling him around the room, Little Hobbin devises a way to keep his crib rolling and, with the help of the moon, rolls out of the house, into the street, to the end of the world, and into the sky.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1558584609/?tag=2022091-20
(The Rider on the White Horse begins as a ghost story. A...)
The Rider on the White Horse begins as a ghost story. A traveler along the coast of the North Sea is caught in dangerously rough weather. Offshore he glimpses a spectral rider rising and plunging in the wind and rain. Taking shelter at an inn, the traveler mentions the apparition, and the local schoolmaster volunteers a story. The story is both simple and subtle, and its peculiar power is to surprise us slowly. It is a story of determination, of a young man, Hauke Haien, living in a remote community (Storm depicts the village with the luminous precision of a Vermeer), who is out to make a name for himself and to remake his world. It is a story of devotion and disappointment, of pettiness and superstition, of spiritual pride and ultimate desolation, and of the beauty and indifference of the natural world. It is a story that opens up in the end to uncover the foundation of savagery on which human society rests. Theodor Storms great novella, which will remind readers of the work of Thomas Hardy, is one of the supreme masterpieces of German literature. It is here limpidly translated by the American poet James Wright, along with seven other shorter works, including the lyrical love story Immensee.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1590173015/?tag=2022091-20
(Diese Novellensammlung braucht jeder Freund klassischer d...)
Diese Novellensammlung braucht jeder Freund klassischer deutscher Literatur: 572 Minuten Novellen in bester Aufnahme- und Sprachqualität. Vier berühmte und für ihr literarisches Genre wegweisende Novellen von Sven Görtz, dessen Hörbuch-Edition der Bibel zur Zeit für Furore sorgt. Der Schimmelreiter: Der von den Dorfbewohnern abgelehnte neue Deichgraf Hauke Haien will einen Deich bauen, der enormen Landgewinn bringen wird. Doch die Dorfbevölkerung kämpft gegen ihn... Die Judenbuche: Ein Mann wird gefunden - tot in einem Baum, der so genannten Judenbuche. Wer ist der Tote? Warum wurde er umgebracht? Ein meisterliches Kriminalstück um Schuld und Sühne. Lenz: Die Chronik eines tragischen Falles. Sie schildert die Geschichte des Schriftstellers Lenz und seinen sich beschleunigenden Abstieg in die völlige geistige Umnachtung. Rat Krespel: Rat Krespels Tochter hat eine betörende Stimme - doch aufgrund einer schweren Krankheit würde Gesang ihren Tod bedeuten. Jeder gesungene Ton bringt sie dem Tod näher, aber die Liebe zwingt sie zum Singen...
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00T961ATQ/?tag=2022091-20
Storm was born in Bloomington, California to German parents who were refugees fleeing anti-socialist fervor in Germany following the failed Revolutions of 1848.
He studied engineering at Stanford University and went into the newly emerging field of radio.
His reputation quickly faded into obscurity after his early death, but in the 1940s received some positive praise from the legendary literary critic Edmund Wilson. He traveled in south and Central America, including long spells in Nicaragua and Peru. He served two years with an American Army Hospital during World War I. He died of accidental electrocution December 11, 1941, a few days after Pearl Harbor, while rushing to complete a large radio transformer for the Army Signal Corps in a laboratory in San Francisco.
His first novel, Full Measure (1929), is about industrial expansion and is strongest on the subject of radio engineering and equipment.
lieutenant "received mildly positive reviews but sold little over a thousand copies." His next novel, Pity the Tyrant (1937) is about an American engineer who becomes involved in a Peruvian revolution. Edmund Wilson considered it his best work.
Civilized behavior deteriorates and the passengers break into two warring camps. His last novel, Count Ten (1940) is his longest, it follows thirty years of the life of "Eric Marsden".
In Edmund Wilson’s estimation, the novel is "very much inferior on the whole to the ones that had gone before." He also thought that it showed "what seemed internal evidence of having been written earlier than they," giving off the air of "one of those autobiographical novels that young men begin in college and carry around for years in old trunks.".
( After his mother becomes exhausted wheeling him around ...)
(Diese Novellensammlung braucht jeder Freund klassischer d...)
(The Rider on the White Horse begins as a ghost story. A...)