Adalbert Stifter

Indian Summer

Novel about older man's idealized love for young woman amid autumn landscapes

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Adalbert Stifter
Adalbert Stifter

Austrian author celebrated for the luminous descriptive prose of his fiction set in the Bohemian Forest. Indian Summer is considered by many the greatest German-language novel, a masterwork of serene, contemplative realism.

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