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Victoria

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A miller's son, Johannes, falls in love with the daughter of a wealthy landowner, Victoria.

The novel follows them through adolescence, as Johannes struggles with the social hierarchy and becomes a successful author, and Victoria is forced into marrying Otto, a lieutenant, to save the troubled family economy. A lyrical excursion into unconsummated love, love that is described memorably as 'Blood and Blossoms'.

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Souvenir Press Ltd
0285647598 / 9780285647596
Paperback / softback
01/01/2001
United Kingdom
English
Foreign
170 p.
20 cm
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Reprint. This translation originally published: New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1969.
Author won Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913
Author won Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913 FA Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FC Classic fiction (pre c 1945)