Project Gutenberg 2015-04-04 Public domain in the USA. 118 Ebner-Eschenbach, Marie von 1830 1916 Von Ebner-Eschenbach, Marie Eschenbach, Marie Ebner von Ebner von Eschenbach, Marie, Freifrau Peltonen, Ester Das Gemeindekind. Finnish Kunnanlapsi Produced by Juhani Kärkkäinen and Tapio Riikonen "Kunnanlapsi" by Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach is a novel written in the late 19th century. The book seems to explore themes of social injustice and human dignity through the experiences of its central characters, including the impoverished Holub family and their struggles in a rural community. The author, who was born into nobility, uses her insights into both high society and peasant life to depict the harsh realities faced by the oppressed. At the start of the novel, the reader is introduced to the troubled life of the Holub family, particularly focusing on the father, Martin Holub, whose alcoholism leads to a rapid decline in their living conditions after they relocate to a new village. Despite the mother's hard work, the family faces continuous hardships, culminating in a series of tragic events that involve conflicts with authority figures and the community. The opening also establishes a contrast between different social classes while foreshadowing the family's harrowing and challenging journey through a system that offers them little hope or compassion. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 41.4 (College-level). Difficult to read. fi Orphans -- Fiction Didactic fiction German fiction -- Translations into Finnish Village communities -- Fiction Moravia (Czech Republic) -- Fiction PT Text Browsing: Culture/Civilization/Society Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction Category: Novels Category: German Literature 471331 2025-06-22T22:25:31.142269 text/html 471166 471081 2024-10-20T09:54:08.759028 2023-09-21T06:38:40.339664 text/html text/html 251236 2025-06-22T22:25:49.740120 application/epub+zip 257073 2025-06-22T22:25:40.339173 application/epub+zip 248379 2025-06-22T22:25:34.859208 application/epub+zip 463024 2025-06-22T22:25:58.204135 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 434025 2025-06-22T22:25:48.940167 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 400626 2022-09-22T05:46:35.545602 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 431674 2025-06-22T22:25:30.538248 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 411917 2024-10-24T17:13:46 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 13092 2025-06-22T22:25:58.352085 application/rdf+xml 14968 2025-06-22T22:25:39.590218 image/jpeg 3763 2025-06-22T22:25:39.291173 image/jpeg 251535 2025-06-22T22:25:31.189213 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog de.wikipedia en.wikipedia