by Theodor Fontane · Philipp Reclam, Jun Verlag GmbH · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783150085776
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«Unterm Birnbaum» is the crime novel by Theodor Fontane, published by Philipp Reclam Jun Verlag in paperback (136 pages, in German).
Innkeeper Abel Hradscheck, drowning in debt, and his wife Ursel try to avoid ruin when a debt collector disappears in their village. Neighbour Jeschke claims to have seen him digging under the pear tree, and the community's suspicions unleash growing tension; guilt, deceit and social pressure mark the story.
Originally published in 1885, it is part of Reclams Universal-Bibliothek (No. 8577); edition with text revised by Kurt Schreinert and epilogue, chronology and annotations by Irene Ruttmann.
Suitable for students of German and readers of classic 19th-century crime fiction.
