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On Tangled Paths

On Tangled Paths

Fontane, Theodor
Bowman, Peter James

Paperback

Series: Pushkin Press Classics

Classic FictionGeneral Fiction

Publisher Price: $17.95

ISBN10: 1805331612
ISBN13: 9781805331612
Publisher: Pushkin Press Classics
Published: Feb 24 2026
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.88 Width: 5.05 Depth: 7.73
Language: English
PERFECT FOR FANS OF JANE AUSTEN: A seamstress and cavalry officer fall in love across class divides in this sparkling, tender, delicately ironic portrait of 19th-century Berlin (New York Review of Books).

A joy for its humanity, subtlety and visual immediacy.-- Independent

From Germany's greatest 19th-century novelist, this realist masterpiece interrogates the strict social codes of a rapidly changing era through a wistful struggle between love and obligation.

Lene is an orphaned seamstress; Botho is a nobleman and an officer in one of the Prussian army's most glittering regiments. But despite their differences of class and education, they fall quickly in love, spending a summer together in a clear-eyed, tender love affair before society's demands force them cruelly apart. Now married to a wealthy cousin, Botho learns years later that Lene too has an opportunity to marry. Her ex-lover must choose between holding on to regret or letting go of the past - along with the possibility of getting Lene herself back.

Unusually progressive for literature of the period, this masterwork of Fontane's portrays a love story that defies class boundaries, full of tender irony and vivid evocations of a quickly expanding Berlin and its bucolic surroundings. Fontane bring sharp psychological insight to his achingly sympathetic portrayal of two lovers torn between their hearts and the obligations of social circumstance.

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