Fontane in the Twenty-First Century
- ISBN-10
- 1640140093
- ISBN-13
- 9781640140097
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 266
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2019
- Publisher
- Camden House (NY)
- Authors
- Brian Tucker, John B. Lyon
Description
Assesses the relevance of the works of Fontane, perhaps the foremost German novelist between Goethe and Mann, for the twenty-first century.
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