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A recently widowed woman finds herself untethered, her heart caught between lingering memories of a failed marriage and a yearning for something beyond grief. She reflects on the paradox that love lives inside her more than in the person who once held her hand, turning her sorrow into a quiet, almost reverent contemplation of the divine nature of feeling itself. Through a lyrical, philosophical prelude she sets the tone for a journey that seeks solace in the natural world rather than in the expectations of society.
Choosing the quiet of her garden and the open sky as companions, she retreats into a space where trees, flowers, and the evening light become extensions of her inner dialogue. In these moments she discovers a gentle, almost ecstatic connection to the world that hints at a new, uncharted form of affection that may reshape her understanding of self and companionship. The narrative remains poised between mourning and awakening, inviting listeners to feel the delicate balance of loss and the persistent hope that love, in its purest sense, can bloom anew.
Language
de
Duration
~1 hours (74K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.)
Release date
2015-02-15
Rights
Public domain in the USA.
Subjects
1782–1847
A sharp, prolific voice of the German Romantic era, she wrote novels, tales, poems, essays, reviews, and translations, sometimes under the name Luise Berg. Her work earned enough attention in her own lifetime for contemporaries to compare her with Madame de Genlis.
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