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Bahnwärter Thiel
Gerhart Hauptmann · 1888
Original text in German. In English: Lineman Thiel.
A short story of German naturalism, in which a gentle man keeps his post beside a railway line that crosses the forest, between a dead woman he venerates and a living one who dominates him.
Short stories · 3 parts · about 10 000 words · about 45 min of reading
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Gerhart Hauptmann († 1946): public-domain work. The text is that of the Project Gutenberg e-book (no. 29376). Erostrate has not changed a single word: only the layout and the division into pages are ours.
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