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Bergkristall
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Stifter’s Alpine novella follows two children lost in snow between mountain villages, turning a simple journey into a luminous study of nature, fear, faith, and communal rescue.
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Bergkristall
Bergkristall is one of Adalbert Stifter’s most beloved works, set in a high Alpine landscape where two children are caught by snow and darkness on Christmas Eve. The novella’s clear style, mountain imagery, village life, and quiet moral force make it a classic of German prose about nature, danger, innocence, and human solidarity.
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Adalbert Stifter died in 1868; Bergkristall was first published in 1845. These dates support the public-domain basis for this original German edition.
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