Rock crystal

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Two children descend from the Alps after a visit with their grandparents only to take a wrong turn and find themselves lost on a glacier, with the snow falling and the night closing in. This seemingly simple fable of two children lost in an icy landscape is eloquent in its innocence, but is implicit with the fragility of life and the inevitability of death. This quasi-fairy tale speaks of village life in the high mountains, but is also a parable of belief and faith. "Rock Crystal" is a Christm…

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Title Statements

Full title :Rock crystal / Adalbert Stifter ; translated by Elizabeth Mayer, Marianne Moore ; introduction by W.H. Auden.

Summary

Two children descend from the Alps after a visit with their grandparents only to take a wrong turn and find themselves lost on a glacier, with the snow falling and the night closing in.

This seemingly simple fable of two children lost in an icy landscape is eloquent in its innocence, but is implicit with the fragility of life and the inevitability of death. This quasi-fairy tale speaks of village life in the high mountains, but is also a parable of belief and faith. "Rock Crystal" is a Christmas story and a story about the heart of the ice, the crystal.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©1945

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):New York Review Books
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:©1945

Notes

Reprint of edition published: New York : Pantheon Books, 1945.

The Physical Object

Description:x, 76 pages ; : 21 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781590172858, 159017285X
oclc:ocn227002116
LC Classification:PT2525.B4
Dewey Decimal:833/.7

Subjects

Christmas fiction Christmas stories Communautés rurales -- Romans, nouvelle… Enfants disparus -- Romans, nouvelles, … Europe Fiction Missing children Missing children -- Fiction. -- Europe Montagnes -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. --… Mountains Mountains -- Fiction. -- Europe Village communities Village communities -- Fiction. -- Euro…