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Der Schimmelreiter
Theodor Storm · 1888
Original text in German. In English: The Rider on the White Horse.
The story of a dike master who wants to rebuild the coastal defences against the advice of the peasants, on a North Sea coast where legend counts as much as calculation.
Short stories · about 38 000 words · about 2 h 46 of reading
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Theodor Storm († 1888): public-domain work. The text is that of the Project Gutenberg e-book (no. 74008). Erostrate has not changed a single word: only the layout and the division into pages are ours.
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