The Jews Beech

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Based on a true story, The Jews Beech centres on two brutal murders in rural Westphalia the first of a local forester and the second of a Jewish moneylender near a beech tree and the impact these events have on the life of Friedrich Mergel, a local herdsman with a turbulent family history. A prototype of the murder mystery and a thoughtful examination of village society, this intriguing novella contains hints of the Gothic and the uncanny ominous thunderstorms, mysterious disappearances, eerie doppelgngers and grisly discoveries in the depths of the forest as well as a famously ambiguous climax.

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Annette von Droste-Hlshoff (17971848) is considered one of the most important German poets of the nineteenth century. Her classic novella The Jews Beech is her only completed work of prose fiction.