Anne‑Dore spends her evenings gazing from a modest window onto a red‑tinged heath that stretches beyond a low beech forest. The shifting light paints the pine trunks in dark gold, and the distant, craggy rocks glow with the fading sun, turning the landscape into a quiet dreamscape that mirrors her own thoughts. This ever‑changing horizon has become the rhythm of her solitary life, a place where the world feels both endless and intimately familiar.
At home, her parents live in a hushed, devout routine. Her mother speaks in soft, almost song‑like tones, while her father is often away on distant travels, leaving Anne‑Dore to feel a quiet distance from both. The strict religiosity that surrounds them offers a comforting order, yet it also feels like an invisible barrier between her heart and the world she longs to understand.
Now, as she grows older, Anne‑Dore begins to question the values handed down to her. The bright, earthly sky seems more appealing than the promised future of a distant, heavenly realm, and she finds herself yearning for a path that reflects her own inner voice.
Language
de
Duration
~4 hours (251K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
Produced by Norbert H. Langkau, Martin Oswald and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net
Release date
2014-10-26
Rights
Public domain in the USA.
Subjects

1880–1952
Best known as the creator of Maya the Bee, this German writer mixed adventure, fantasy, and reflections on nature in books that reached generations of readers. His work ranged from children's stories to novels and travel writing, with a style that helped make him widely read in the early 20th century.
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