The Child of the Parish
novel by Ebner-Eschenbach
Also known as: “Das Gemeindekind”
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- In Marie, baroness von Ebner-Eschenbach
…her masterpiece, Das Gemeindekind (1887; The Child of the Parish), she graphically depicted the surroundings of her Moravian home and showed a true sympathy for the poor and an unsentimental understanding of children. Lotti, die Uhrmacherin (1879; “Lotti, the Watchmaker”), Zwei Comtessen (1885; “Two Countesses”), and Unsühnbar (1890; “Inexpiable,” or…
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