Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts: Novelle

About this book

A German Romantic novella follows a miller’s son who leaves home and wanders among grand houses and foreign places, hoping to find love and a place in life. When he discovers a maid asleep in a room adjoining his, he quietly shuts the door so she will not wake in embarrassment. After a garden accusation drives him out, he turns away from Italy, and his account makes sudden reversals feel as ordinary as setting off again. Songs and close attention to birds, fountains, and mountains give the wandering its distinctive lyric tone.