Project Gutenberg 2025-05-16 Public domain in the USA. 201 Speckmann, Diedrich 1872 1938 Geschwister Rosenbrock $aBerlin :$bVerlag von Martin Warneck, $c1921. The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net "Geschwister Rosenbrock" by Diedrich Speckmann is a novel written in the early 20th century. Set in a North German moor colony, it follows the orphaned siblings Gerd and Leidchen (Adelheid) as they grow up amid hard work, strict customs, and tight-knit neighborly life. The story contrasts Gerd’s dutiful, steady nature with Leidchen’s lively, strong-willed temperament and places them within village tensions, especially with the miller’s son Hermann, and under the eyes of old and new schoolmasters. The opening of the novel shows a winter schoolday in Brunsode interrupted when Gerd and Leidchen are called to their dying mother, whose last words bind Gerd to watch over his sister; the neighbor women then keep vigil, prepare the body, and the community attends the funeral in Grünmoor. A new teacher arrives, a snowfall frames his lesson on the moor, and a small revolt over Leidchen’s name (refusing “Adelheid”) signals her spirit, while a snowball battle cements Gerd’s rivalry with the boastful Hermann. At home, with their stepbrother Jan’s new family, the siblings work hard; sent to fetch heather-straw by boat, they share a playful quarrel over a gifted chocolate, hinting at Hermann’s unwanted attention. Time shifts to Leidchen’s confirmation: spring brilliance, a visit to their mother’s grave, and the solemn procession. That afternoon, Gerd and Leidchen walk their fields and the cut-over moor, recalling family toil, planning the coming peat work, and quietly sensing her passage from childhood, ending with his cautious care as she longs to climb among the pines. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 20221002070808speckmann 1921 de Reading ease score: 81.5 (6th grade). Easy to read. de German fiction -- 20th century PT Text Category: Novels Category: German Literature 683449 2025-09-30T06:26:23.797837 text/html 658928 2025-05-16T12:13:42 text/html 479335 2025-09-30T06:26:32.974736 application/epub+zip 474951 2025-09-30T06:26:25.587746 application/epub+zip 472960 2025-09-30T06:26:24.634797 application/epub+zip 1312411 2025-09-30T06:26:38.349732 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1273153 2025-09-30T06:26:32.088715 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 627788 2025-09-30T06:26:22.122816 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 608010 2025-05-16T12:13:42 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 15854 2025-09-30T06:26:38.484685 application/rdf+xml 29571 2025-09-30T06:26:24.860757 image/jpeg 4326 2025-09-30T06:26:24.746768 image/jpeg 816204 2025-09-30T06:26:23.864791 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