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Adalbert Stifter

Born

in Oberplan, Bohemia, now Horni Plana, Czech Republic

October 23, 1805

Died

January 28, 1868

Genre

Fiction, Poetry

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Adalbert Stifter was an Austrian writer, poet, painter, and pedagogue. He was especially notable for the vivid natural landscapes depicted in his writing, and has long been popular in the German-speaking world, while almost entirely unknown to English readers.

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Average rating: 3.61 · 5,451 ratings · 636 reviews · 471 distinct works • Similar authors

	Rock Crystal by Adalbert Stifter, Marianne Moore (Translator), Elizabeth Wolff Mayer (Translator) 3.69 avg rating — 2,095 ratings — published 1845 — 146 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Brigitta 3.45 avg rating — 753 ratings — published 1843 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Motley Stones by Adalbert Stifter, Isabel Fargo Cole (Translator) 3.90 avg rating — 419 ratings — published 1853 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Indian Summer by Adalbert Stifter, Wendell Frye (Translator) 3.82 avg rating — 366 ratings — published 1857 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Bachelors by Adalbert Stifter, David Bryer (Translator) 3.60 avg rating — 280 ratings — published 1845 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	El sendero en el bosque by Adalbert Stifter, Carlos d'Ors Führer (Translator) 3.39 avg rating — 243 ratings — published 1845 — 31 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Granit 3.30 avg rating — 151 ratings — published 1853 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Der Hochwald 3.60 avg rating — 126 ratings — published 1842 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Abdías (Otras Latitudes) by Adalbert Stifter, Carlos D'ors (Translator) 3.50 avg rating — 107 ratings — published 1842 — 45 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Brigitta and Other Tales by Adalbert Stifter, Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly (Editor, Translator) 3.82 avg rating — 74 ratings — published 1844 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Adalbert Stifter

Bunte Steine (6 books)
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3.67 avg rating — 2,803 ratings

Der Nachsommer (3 books)
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Adalbert Stifter,

Wolfgang Frühwald (Editor),

Walter Hettche (Editor)

3.82 avg rating — 374 ratings

Witiko (3 books)
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Adalbert Stifter,

Wolfgang Wiesmuller (Editor),

Wolfgang Fruhwald (Editor)

3.67 avg rating — 42 ratings

Studien (6 books)
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Adalbert Stifter

it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 6 ratings

Quotes by Adalbert Stifter (?)

“Great beauty and youth capture our attention, excite a deep pleasure; however, why shouldn't our souls gaze at a countenance over which the years have passed? Isn't there a story there, one unknown, full of pain or beauty, which pours its reflection into the features, a story we can read with some compassion or at least get a slight hint of its meaning? The young point toward the future; the old tell of a past.”
― Adalbert Stifter, Indian Summer

tags: age, beauty, future, old-age, past, youth

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“Everything that now exists, no matter how great and good it is, lasts for a time, fulfills a purpose, and then passes on. And so it will be with all the works of art that now exist; an eternal veil of forgetfulness will lie over them, just as there is now over those things that came before.”
― Adalbert Stifter, Indian Summer

tags: art, temporality, transience

10 likes

“. . . for us there still exists a serene, unfathomable abyss in which God and the spirits dwell. The soul, in moments of ecstasy, often soars across it; poetry unveils it at times with childlike naivete; but science with its hammer and yardstick is often perched at the rim and may, in many cases, contribute nothing at all.”
― Adalbert Stifter, Brigitta

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March 2025 Short Story/Novella Poll

The Queen of Spades by Alexander Pushkin

38 votes, 24.2%

Queenie: A story by Alice Munro

28 votes, 17.8%

The Devil and Tom Walker by Washington Irving

18 votes, 11.5%

Bliss from The Collected Stories by Katherine Mansfield

17 votes, 10.8%

Rappaccini's Daughter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

12 votes, 7.6%

Mimsy Were The Borogoves by Lewis Padgett

12 votes, 7.6%

The Weary Blues by Langston Hughes

11 votes, 7.0%

Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories title story by Sandra Cisneros

10 votes, 6.4%

The Hunting Gun by Yasushi Inoue

6 votes, 3.8%

Rock Crystal by Adalbert Stifter

5 votes, 3.2%

157 total votes

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