The Rider on the White Horse
Start Publishing LLC · Print & ebook · November 1, 2012
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- Who it’s for
- A clear-eyed novella sets human resolve against elemental nature, with love and tragedy in view.
- Themes
- Humanity and nature, Love and tragedy, Heredity and parent-child relationships
- Genres
- German Literary Collections, The Classics, Sea Stories
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The Rider of the White Horse is a classic German novella, in which the individual wrestles with the mass, the man with the most elementary forces of nature. The scene of the novella is characterized with vividness in its setting of marsh and sea, it glorifies love, and at the same time it touches themes which deeply occupied Storm, such as the problem of heredity or the relation between father and son. Happiness is won, but it ends in tragedy.
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It is a man of sober intellect who tells the whole story - and yet, like human life itself, it stands out against a mystic background. Remembrance of long ago has clarified everything. It is Storm's last complete work.
Marsh and Mystery
A clear-eyed novella sets human resolve against elemental nature, with love and tragedy in view.
Come here for
- Vivid marsh-and-sea atmosphere
- A layered tension between individual will and nature
Expect
- A sober voice with a mystic undertow
- Love touched by loss
Where it sits
| Sea Stories | 59% |
|---|---|
| German Literary Collections | 46% |
| The Classics | 40% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Time-Travel Romance
- Sea Stories
- Authors
- Theodor Storm
- Publisher
- Start Publishing LLC
- Published
- November 1, 2012
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Humanity and nature · Love and tragedy · Heredity and parent-child relationships
- Reading lane
- Time-Travel Romance