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A recently returned landowner resolves to end a life of travel and seeks purpose through work and public engagement at his provincial estate. The narrative moves episodically between coastal night scenes and balmy lakeside memories, following social encounters, courtships, proposals, and rivalries among the local gentry. Public events and quiet reflective moments reveal tensions between reputation, desire, and duty, while political awakenings and everyday obligations shape choices. The book combines romantic incident, social observation, and travel reminiscence to portray personal change within a shifting rural society.

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Footnote 1: A common or moorland covered with heather, merely so-called in East Prussia.--Translator's Note.

Footnote 2: The art designation of the Nankin Academy. Wald signifies forest or grove; Pinsel paint-brushes and simpletons: hence the joke is lost in translation.--Translator's note.

Footnote 3:

The lark it was, not the nightingale,
Come arise from your quiet-laden slumber,--
The fires are ready on every side,
The sacred fires, without number.

Footnote 4: The quotations from Heine are borrowed from E. A. Bowring's, those from Schiller from Lord Lytton's translations.--Translator's Note.

Withered Leaves: A Novel. Vol. 1 (of 3)

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