The Innocents and Other Stories

By Gertrud von le Fort

Product Code: 9781586176402

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PRE-ORDER NOW. Release date: August 27, 2019

Newly translated into English for the first time, these four

novellas from the acclaimed German writer Gertrud von le

Fort are from her later works of historical fiction. Ominous

and mysterious, these page-turning stories bring to life

momentous chapters in from the past.

The Innocents, set in Germany after the Second World War, is

a poignant family drama about the horrors of war, the suffering

of the innocent, and the demands of justice.

The Ostracized Woman traces the fate of a Prussian family at

the end of World War II to the heroic deed of an ancestor

done centuries before.

The Last Meeting imagines the last encounter between

Madame de La Valliére and Madame de Montespan, rival

mistresses of King Louis XIV of France.

The Tower of Constancy leads the reader into the heart of the

infamous French prison of the same name while exploring

the role of conscience in the religious and philosophical conflicts

of the eighteenth-century.

POINTS OF INTEREST

• Riveting short works of fiction by an acclaimed

author

• Characters and periods of history brought to

life by an author with intimate knowledge of

her subject matter

• First-time for these celebrated works to be

made available in English

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