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      The Bachelors

      by Adalbert Stifter
      Published
      May 2009
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      General Fiction General Fiction
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      160
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      Leaving the home of his foster mother to begin his working life, young Victor stops to visit his uncle, who long ago sealed himself away from the world, on a island in a lake, high in the Austrian alps. The old man, who has never known love, lives barricaded in a former monastery, surrounded by an atmosphere of death and decay. Portraying the friction between these two characters with keen psychological insight, Stifter's masterful bildungsroman explores conflicting attitudes to life and their existential effects: stillness and movement, light and dark, openness and withdrawal.

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      General Fiction

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      Historical

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      First Edition May 2009 Pushkin Press ISBN13 9781901285703 ISBN10 1901285707
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      Mar 2008 Pushkin Press Limited ISBN13 9781908968302 ISBN10 1908968303
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