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Hammer and Anvil: A Novel

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By Friedrich Spielhagen
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A group of young students and their austere instructor navigate a world of personal and social pressures, moving between schoolroom discipline and intimate domestic crises. The narrative follows their ambitions, frustrations, and moral dilemmas as ideological commitments collide with practical necessity, and private relationships expose conflicting temperaments. Episodes of tension and revelation compel characters to reevaluate loyalties and compromises, while the author sketches varied personalities with brisk, incisive prose that emphasizes ethical struggle, generational friction, and the uneasy reconciliation of ideals with everyday life.




FOOTNOTES:


Footnote 1: "Ordinarius," the professor charged with the especial instruction of any class. "The Prima," or first form, corresponds to the sixth or highest form in an English public school.--Tr.

Footnote 2: "Steuerrath," Councillor of Customs, the title of an official, as is also "Commerzienrath," Councillor of Commerce, in the next paragraph.--Tr.

Footnote 3: "Gnädigste," most gracious. A form of address to ladies of rank.--Tr.

Footnote 4: "Rathhaus;" Council-house, or City Hall.--Tr.

Footnote 5: "Raubmördergalgenmässig."

Footnote 6: From this point the conversation is continued in the familiar second person, which does not convey the same association in English, and is therefore not adopted in the translation.--Tr.

Footnote 7: "Bierkaltschale," a beverage composed of beer, sweetened with fruit sliced into it.--Tr.

Footnote 8: An old-fashioned table-compliment, meaning "may your dinner do you good!"--Tr.

Footnote 9: "Die Liebe" is feminine in German.--Tr.



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