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Theodor Fontane


Born
in Neuruppin (Brandenburg), Germany
December 30, 1819

Died
September 20, 1898

Genre
Contemporary, Fiction, Poetry

Influences
Ivan Turgenev, George Eliot ...more


Theodor Fontane, novelist, critic, poet, and travel writer, was one of the most celebrated nineteenth-century German men of letters. He was born into a French Huguenot family in the Prussian town of Neuruppin, where his father owned a small pharmacy. His father’s gambling debts forced the family to move repeatedly, and eventually his temperamentally mismatched parents separated.

Though Fontane showed early interest in history and literature - jotting down stories in his school notebooks - he could not afford to attend university; instead he apprenticed as a pharmacist and eventually settled in Berlin. There he joined the influential literary society Tunnel über der Spree, which included among its members Theodor Storm and Gottfried Keller, a ...more

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Quotes by Theodor Fontane  (?)
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“Bücher haben Ehrgefühl. Wenn man sie verleiht, kommen sie nicht mehr zurück.”
― Theodor Fontane
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“Ein Optimist ist ein Mensch, der ein Dutzend Austern bestellt, in der Hoffnung, sie mit der Perle, die er darin findet, bezahlen zu können.”
― Theodor Fontane
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“Ich liebe dich ja… wie heißt es doch, wenn man einen Zweig abbricht und die Blätter abreißt? Von Herzen, mit Schmerzen, über alle Maßen.”
― Theodor Fontane, Effi Briest
tags: love
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Polls

January 2015 Old School Classics Poll

Which book would you like to read for our January 2015 Old School Classics group read?

1851, Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell, 257 pages
 
  14 votes, 24.1%

1842, Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol, 464 pages
 
  11 votes, 19.0%

1899, The Awakening by Kate Chopin, 195 pages
 
  7 votes, 12.1%

 
  4 votes, 6.9%

 
  4 votes, 6.9%

 
  4 votes, 6.9%

1868, Little Women by Louisa May Alcott, 449 pages
 
  3 votes, 5.2%

1894, The Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling, 368 pages
 
  3 votes, 5.2%

1847, Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë, 251 pages
 
  2 votes, 3.4%

 
  2 votes, 3.4%

1830, The Red and the Black by Stendhal, 607 pages
 
  2 votes, 3.4%

1869, The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain, 560 pages
 
  1 vote, 1.7%

1895, Effi Briest by Theodor Fontane, 272 pages
 
  1 vote, 1.7%

58 total votes
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