Wuthering
Expectations

Two novels that depend heavily on context, maybe on outside knowledge.   What novel doesn’t.   More than usual, I guess I mean.   These were...

A Doppelgänger (1886), the novella in Denis Jackson’s recent translation that is new to English, is a shocker, not like anything else I hav...

The great Theodor Storm translator Denis Jackson published his fifth volume of Storm’s novellas recently – A Doppelgänger with Aquis submers...

New in Krimis :  Or new to me.  Animal mysteries.  Zoo mysteries.  These categories might overlap.  After the success of Glennkill: Ein Scha...

The town is Husum, on the North Sea coast of Schleswig-Holstein, home of Theodor Storm and inspiration for much of his fiction.  It is now, ...

Meine Frau does not share my unhealthy suspicion about beauty in literature.  When I asked her who she thought of as especially beautiful, ...

In Theodor Storm's "A Green Leaf" (1850), a soldier is lying in the heather: The brilliant Argus-eyed butterflies fluttered up...

My enormous enthusiasm for the works of Theodor Storm has been tempered to a degree by the my most recent reading of Storm. The just republ...

July , by Theodor Storm Sounds in wind a lullaby sun shines warmly from the sky, heavy ears bend down the corn, berries ripen on the th...

Another reason I don’t just read Important Classics is that so many not-so-important books are so good. Everyone knows this already, I know....

A few weeks ago , I mentioned that Theodor Storm referred to a novel and writer I'd never heard of, Wilhelm Hauff. Poor Hauff, dead at t...

I found a translation of Theodor Storm's Der kleine Häwelmann at the library. Not just any library - Bigshot Research Unversity Library...

I had planned to write something about Theodor Storm's last major work, The Dykemaster aka The Rider on the White Horse (1888), writte...

Theodor Storm's novella Hans and Heniz Kirch (1882) contains a story that could be, has been, set anywhere. A father is ambitious for h...

The beginning of Theodor Storm's short story Journey to a Hallig (1871): "There were once vast forests of oak along our coast, and...

Everywhere I look, in everything I read, things are going great. Or they go great for a while, but then something bad happens. Or they'r...

Theodor Storm wrote on a small scale - novellas and short tales, and lyric poems, mostly set in and around the country where he grew up. He ...

My attempts to think about the achievement of Theodor Storm have been a failure. His art is too agile; it's slipped way from me. I am su...

I guess the title of Theodor Storm's A Quiet Musician (1875) is not exactly a paradox. But a musician should not be too quiet. The cent...

"'But who composed these lovely songs?" asked Elisabeth. 'Oh,' said Erich, 'you can hear it in the little dittie...