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The Rider on the White Horse begins as a ghost story. A traveler finds himself caught in rough weather. On an island just offshore he glimpses the specter of a rider on a white horse rising and plunging in the wind and rain. Taking shelter at a local inn, the traveler mentions the apparition, and the local schoolmaster volunteers a story. It is a tale of ambition; of love and family; and of politics. It is a story, too, about the crisis of faith, of wanting and missing the presence of the divine, and of the persistence of superstition. It is an appealingly matter-of-fact picture of rural life, a harrowing glimpse of spiritual isolation, and a stark vision of the violence of the natural world. Finally, it is a story about the basis of civilization in the act of human sacrifice. Theodor Storm's novella is a gripping dramatization of the bloody reckonings that lie beneath the surface of civilization.

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Kategoria Książki po angielsku Fiction & related items Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

• Pełny tytuł: Rider on the White Horse
• Autor: Theodor Storm
• Język: Angielski
• Oprawa: Miękka
• Liczba stron: 288
• EAN: 9781590173015
• ISBN: 1590173015
• ID: 04236740
• Wydawca: New York Review Books
• Waga: 293 g
• Wymiary: 199 × 128 × 19 mm
• Data wydania: 19. February 2009

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