Description: Translation of nineteenth-century novel of life in a still-feudal Moravian village.
Brief description: LYNNE TATLOCK is the Hortense and Tobias Lewin Distinguished Professor in the Humanities at Washington University in St. Louis.
Review Quotes: Ebner-Eschenbach's story of the slow and indefatigable rise of the orphaned son of an executed murderer, who is reared by his village only out of a sense of its legal obligation, is consistent with prevailing Victorian and Hapsburg era literary tastes. This highly readable rendition preserves both the spirit and the tenor of the original. Not a book just for students and scholars of literature, readers of all backgrounds and tastes should enjoy it.-- "CHOICE"