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    German Moonlight
    German Moonlight
    German Moonlight
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    German Moonlight

    By Wilhelm Raabe

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 25, 2013
    German Moonlight
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    Wilhelm Raabe

    Wilhelm Raabe (1831-1910), bekannt unter seinem Pseudonym Jakob Corvinus, schuf ein breites Werk. Sein einzigartiger Stil und sein Blick auf eine Vielzahl von Themen begeistern bis heute seine Leser.

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      German Moonlight - Wilhelm Raabe

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of German Moonlight, by Wilhelm Raabe

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      Title: German Moonlight (several short stories)

      Author: Wilhelm Raabe

      Release Date: May 10, 2010 [EBook #32009]

      Language: German

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK GERMAN MOONLIGHT ***

      Produced by Michael Wooff, with German from the original text, and his own translation.

      German Moonlight

      A Story by Wilhelm Raabe (1831-1910)

      Let me state my case calmly and without any undue fuss. I am, even by German standards, an uncommonly prudent person and I know how to keep my five senses under control. Apart from that, I am a lawyer and father to three sons. Neither during lilac time nor when there are hibiscus, sunflowers and asters on the ground am I in the habit of laying myself open to sentimental and romantic mood-swings. I do not keep a diary, but my legal appointments books are stored in strict chronological order, year by year, on my library shelves. First of all I have to tell you that, in the year 1867, acting on medical advice, because of the sea air and the salt water, I found myself on the island of Sylt and that, while I was there, I made the acquaintance of someone—a quite extraordinary acquaintance.

      It goes without saying that I cannot stop myself by means of an account in writing of my own experiences and feelings from correcting or corroborating things often felt and even more frequently depicted and described in letters or printed matter. The impression made by the lapping of waves, sand dunes and dune grass, the flight of seagulls and, above all, the west wind on everyone who has had to wash off the dust and sweat of German officialdom is a pleasant and invigorating one. These things did not fail to have the same effect on me either given that the efforts that preceded the said invigoration were no less strenuous.

      I lived on the periphery of two villages, Tinnum and Westerland, and therefore had a walk of at least half an hour to cover in order to reach the beach and the health-giving briny. A not much shorter walk led from there to the good fellow who took us every day at noon for a consideration back again. As a German civil servant used to moderation I set no great store by domestic bliss or even luxury. As I had taken with me seven of my twenty-one pipes, I could have set up home for myself in a megalithic tomb and not have felt uncomfortable.

      Good. I lived with a baker who heated his oven with jetsam wood, that is to say wood bought at beach auctions that came from the spars and timberwork of ships that had foundered on the sand. I helped him

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