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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of my favorite books.  I read it each winter and it so perfectly captures the atmosphere of the Alps, the descriptions of snow and survival and has a glorious ending.  It always reminds me how beautiful writing can capture the most simple story, and yet also how difficult it is to render...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21254574">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Strayed from home last week and found this at Scaredy Kat, the fancy stationery shop which also sells a handful of NYRB books and children's books reissued by Puffin Classics.  Initially this slim volume appealed as a novella (my favorite) vetted by NYRB, but the plot summary on the back makes it ir...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70817222">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Adalbert Stifter's Rock Crystal is a simple story almost a parable or a fairytale except that he spends so much time detailing the life and culture of the mountains. <br/><br/>Stifter saves the story  through is appreciation of the combined beauty and danger of nature (as expressed in the snow sto...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74100947">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A strange little book.  Stifter's descriptions of ice are remarkable.  He finds, like the best of painters, unexpected colors in ordinary things.  Stifter's ice is not just clear and pure but also green and blue and black. It does not surprise that Stifter also made landscape paintings.   <br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39975956">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A lovely short story; definitely a winter read.  Quite nice, I think, in front of the fire with a glass of hot chocolate.  The author does a wonderful job creating a landscape that feels very real and I was impressed with the almost-parable-within-a-story of how strangers become part of a community ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38230110">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Nov 20 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The story of a brother and sister who get lost on Christmas Eve is vividly descriptive of the icy mountain landscape in which they stumble around in the snow. Parts of the book reminded me of the film &quot;Night of the Hunter&quot; when the children are looking at the sky, removed temporarily from ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77197947">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[An almost fairy tale for a winter's night by one of the (so we're told) great German stylists of the 19th century. Adalbert Stifter suffered all his life &quot;from fits of depression and anxiety; one of his adopted daughters died of typhus, the other, for no apparent reason, drowned herself in the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38503179">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A beautifully written simple novella by a master German stylist.  Stifter takes the ordinary and makes it poetic.  I can’t remember the last time I read an author, or a book, where such simplicity made me so tense and had me so engaged in the story, without resorting to any kind of emotionality.  ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58686451">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[with an introduction by w.h. auden, you imagine you're going to be in for a certain clarity of prose... and you're right. this is a short and very simple novella about two kids lost in the mountains during a storm on christmas eve. you can read it in about an hour and it will be an hour well spent. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47022739">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I actually read this on Christmas Eve; I guess I was feeling a little traditional. It's a very NICE story, not too exciting, not life-changing, but very evocative and pretty. That doesn't sound like much of recommendation, does it? Well if you have a cold next Christmas Eve give it a shot; it's very...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41357341">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm not usually so into fables, but this one was well told with beautiful descriptions of ice, snow, and the natural world. Ostensibly about two lost children and what it means to belong to a place, or a community, it's really more about the sublime mystery and awe of nature.  Or maybe one's a part ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45236126">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this fable for my mom's book club group which is meeting during my visit to North Carolina. I guess I'm not one for long, pastoral description. This just wasn't my thing. It was like a meditation on Hansel and Gretel without the conflict of the witch. ]]></body>
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