The Breaking of the Storm, Vol. III.
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"The Breaking of the Storm" is one of the best-known works by the German novelist Friedrich Spielhagen. In this novel the author links the storm tide at the Baltic Sea in the autumn of 1872 with the great crisis of the financial industry, widely known as "The Panic of 1873" that triggered an economic depression in Europe and North America during the 1870s. Since there was no causal connection between financial actions and the weather events, Spielhagen succeeded with this construction to build on certain "collective fantasies" of the readers. The metaphor of the "flood" was certainly present e...
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- BREAKING OF THE STORM.
- FRIEDRICH SPIELHAGEN.
- Translated from the German BY
- S. E. A. H. STEPHENSON.
- IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL III.
- LONDON: RICHARD BENTLEY AND SON. 1877.
- (All Rights Reserved.)
- THE BREAKING OF THE STORM.
- BOOK V.--Continued.
- CHAPTER V.
- CHAPTER III.
- CHAPTER IV.
- CHAPTER V.
- CHAPTER VI.
- BOOK VI.
- CHAPTER I.
- CHAPTER II.
- CHAPTER III.
- CHAPTER IV.
- CHAPTER V.
- CHAPTER VI.
- CHAPTER VII.
- CHAPTER VIII.
- CHAPTER IX.
- CHAPTER X.
- CHAPTER XI.
- CHAPTER XII.
- CHAPTER XIII.
- CHAPTER XIV.
- CHAPTER XV.
- FOOTNOTES:
- THE END.
- BILLING AND SONS, PRINTERS, GUILDFORD, SURREY.
- BENTLEY'S FAVOURITE NOVELS.
- MRS. HENRY WOOD.
- MISS AUSTEN.
- MISS RHODA BROUGHTON.
- MRS. ALEXANDER.
- ANTHONY TROLLOPE.
- MRS. ANNIE EDWARDES.
- BARONESS TAUTPHŒUS.
- LADY G. FULLERTON.
- MRS. AUGUSTUS CRAVEN.
- MISS HELEN MATHERS.
- RICHARD BENTLEY & SON, New Burlington Street
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- ENTITLED
- "CHERRY RIPE,"
- MISS HELEN B. MATHERS
- RICHARD BENTLEY & SON, New Burlington St.
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