The Black Spider
by Gotthelf, Jeremias
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- Fine
- Paperback
- Condition
- Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1590176685
- ISBN 13
- 9781590176689
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Synopsis
Jeremias Gotthelf, the pen name of Albert Bitzius (1797–1854), was a Swiss pastor and the author of novels, novellas, short stories, and nonfiction, who used his writing to communicate his reformist concerns in the field of education and with regard to the plight of the poor. After the success of his first novel, Der Bauernspiegel oder Lebensgeschichte des Jeremias Gotthelf: Von ihm selbst beschrieben (The Peasants’ Mirror; or, The Life History of Jeremias Gotthelf: Described by Himself; 1836) the author adopted the name of the story’s protagonist. Among his major works to have appeared in English translation are The Black Spider ; Ulric, the Farm Servant ; and The Story of an Alpine Valley . Susan Bernofsky is the translator of six books by Robert Walser as well as works by Jenny Erpenbeck, Yoko Tawada, Hermann Hesse, Gregor von Rezzori, and others. The current chair of the PEN Translation Committee, she teaches at the Writing Program at Columbia University, where she is director of the Graduate Translation Program, and is at work on a biography of Walser.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 53359
- Title
- The Black Spider
- Author
- Gotthelf, Jeremias
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1590176685
- ISBN 13
- 9781590176689
- Publisher
- NYRB Classics
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2013
- Keywords
- 1590176685
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