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A legacy a novel

"A Legacy is the tale of two very different families. The Merzes are members of the Jewish upper bourgeoisie of Berlin and direct descendants of Henriette Merz, friend of Goethe and Mirabeau. But this imposing legacy has long since ceased to mean much of anything in the Merzes' huge town house, where the family devotes itself to little more than enjoying its comfort and ensuring its wealth. The Feldens are landed Catholic aristocracy, well off but not rich, from the Catholic south of Germany. When Julius von Felden marries Melanie Merz the fortunes of the two families become strangely, and sometimes fatally, entwined. Told from the point of view of a precociously observant child and set against the background of Germany before the First Word War, A Legacy is at once captivating, magnificently funny, and profound, an unforgettable image of a doomed way of life"--

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  • ""A Legacy is the tale of two very different families. The Merzes are members of the Jewish upper bourgeoisie of Berlin and direct descendants of Henriette Merz, friend of Goethe and Mirabeau. But this imposing legacy has long since ceased to mean much of anything in the Merzes' huge town house, where the family devotes itself to little more than enjoying its comfort and ensuring its wealth. The Feldens are landed Catholic aristocracy, well off but not rich, from the Catholic south of Germany. When Julius von Felden marries Melanie Merz the fortunes of the two families become strangely, and sometimes fatally, entwined. Told from the point of view of a precociously observant child and set against the background of Germany before the First Word War, A Legacy is at once captivating, magnificently funny, and profound, an unforgettable image of a doomed way of life"--"
  • ""A Legacy is the tale of two very different families. The Merzes are members of the Jewish upper bourgeoisie of Berlin and direct descendants of Henriette Merz, friend of Goethe and Mirabeau. But this imposing legacy has long since ceased to mean much of anything in the Merzes' huge town house, where the family devotes itself to little more than enjoying its comfort and ensuring its wealth. The Feldens are landed Catholic aristocracy, well off but not rich, from the Catholic south of Germany. When Julius von Felden marries Melanie Merz the fortunes of the two families become strangely, and sometimes fatally, entwined. Told from the point of view of a precociously observant child and set against the background of Germany before the First Word War, A Legacy is at once captivating, magnificently funny, and profound, an unforgettable image of a doomed way of life"--"@en
  • "The story of three families, one Jewish and two Catholic, and how their lives become entangled in the Kaiser's Germany."
  • "Een afstammelinge van een feodaal Duits geslacht doet het verhaal van haar adellijke, uitzonderlijke familie ten tijde van de eeuwwisseling."
  • "La 4ème de couverture indique : En Allemagne au tournant du XXe siècle, à une période charnière de l'histoire où l'Europe commence à naître, deux familles se trouvent liées par un mariage : les von Felden, aristocrates catholiques terriens du Sud, et les Merz, de la grande bourgeoisie juive de Berlin. Entre l'excentricité des uns et le sens du devoir des autres, Sybille Bedford dresse un portrait de groupe aux destins imbriqués : Julius von Felden, un esthète qui voyage avec ses chimpanzés et refuse de voir la réalité ; son jeune frère Johannes, brutalisé à l'école de cadets, dont la tentative de suicide provoquera un scandale familial et politique. Et puis, ballottée entre deux univers, Francesca, une petite fille qui ressemble à l'auteur enfant, observe la folie et l'aveuglement des adultes, dans un monde qui lentement s'évanouit."

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  • "Domestic fiction"@en
  • "Domestic fiction"
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Jewish fiction"@en
  • "Jewish fiction"
  • "Historische Romane und Erzählungen"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Powieść angielska"@pl
  • "Roman anglais"
  • "Romans (teksten)"

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  • "Ein Vermächtnis"
  • "Il retaggio"@it
  • "Il retaggio"
  • "˜Dasœ Legat"
  • "Das Vermächtnis : Roman"
  • "Dziedzictwo"@pl
  • "Dziedzictwo"
  • "A legacy a novel"@en
  • "A Legacy"@en
  • "A legacy : [novel]"
  • "A legacy"@en
  • "A legacy"
  • "Un Héritage"
  • "Legacy"@en
  • "Il Retaggio"
  • "A legacy : A novel"
  • "To slægter"@da
  • "A Legacy : a novel"
  • "A legacy : [a novel]"@en
  • "Das Legat Roman"
  • "A legacy, a novel"
  • "A legacy, a novel"@en
  • "Das Legat"
  • "Un héritage"
  • "Das Legat : Roman"
  • "Een erfenis : roman"
  • "Ein Vermächtnis : Roman"
  • "A legacy; a novel"@en
  • "Das Legat. Roman"
  • "A legacy : a novel"
  • "A legacy : a novel"@en
  • "Dziedzictwo. Tłumaczyła Mira Michałowska"

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