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Die Judenbuche
Annette von Droste-Hülshoff · 1842
Original text in German. In English: The Jew's Beech.
The story of a murder never cleared up in a Westphalian village in the eighteenth century, drawn from a real news item and told in detached scenes.
Short stories · about 17 000 words · about 1 h 12 of reading
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Annette von Droste-Hülshoff († 1848): public-domain work. The text is that of the Project Gutenberg e-book (no. 45798). Erostrate has not changed a single word: only the layout and the division into pages are ours.
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