Project Gutenberg 2025-06-27 Public domain in the USA. 82 Kahlenberg, Hans von 1870 1957 Von Kahlenberg, Hans Kessler, Helene Montbart, Eva H. von Vuorinen, Huvi 1883 1965 Vasama, Veikko Valkama, Ville Rajatie, Veikko Nixchen. Finnish Tenhotar $aHelsinki :$bMinerva Oy, $c1919. Tuula Temonen "Tenhotar" by Hans von Kahlenberg is an epistolary novel written in the early 20th century. Through a correspondence between a romantic country nobleman and a skeptical city writer, it examines love, purity, and modern moral unrest. The story centers on Achim von Wustrow’s idealized devotion to the young Mathilde and the counterpoint of Herbert Gröndahl’s worldly, often cynical entanglements with fashionable Berlin society. The opening of the novel unfolds as alternating letters: Achim writes rapturously of first love, recounting a chaste mountain encounter with Mathilde, his respectful courtship within her family, and his resolve to be worthy of her innocence, even pressing for an early marriage. In sharp contrast, Herbert narrates how two schoolgirls seek him out, then begins a clandestine affair with one he nicknames “Hempukka,” dissecting her family’s ambitions and his own jaded attitudes while exposing the hypocrisies of urban life. Achim dreams of shared readings, patriotic duty, orderly home life, and fatherhood, guarding Mathilde from dubious influences. Herbert, meanwhile, oscillates between indulgence and moral disgust, turning their liaison into a study of decadence. This early exchange sets up the novel’s central tension between idealism and cynicism, country virtue and city corruption. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 20250623032938vonkahlenb 1919 FI Reading ease score: 44.8 (College-level). Difficult to read. fi Germany -- Fiction Epistolary fiction Man-woman relationships -- Fiction PT Text Category: Novels Category: German Literature 136014 2025-07-30T08:03:43.508489 text/html 116582 2025-07-30T08:03:48.393485 application/epub+zip 117165 2025-07-30T08:03:45.171484 application/epub+zip 117165 2025-07-30T08:03:44.064513 application/epub+zip 197952 2025-07-30T08:03:50.557470 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 182716 2025-07-30T08:03:47.542477 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 117268 2025-07-30T08:03:43.145519 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 97578 2025-06-27T14:03:23 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 14316 2025-07-30T08:03:50.690475 application/rdf+xml 10087 2025-07-30T08:03:44.567492 image/jpeg 2561 2025-07-30T08:03:44.314502 image/jpeg 113883 2025-07-30T08:03:43.520504 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 fi.wikipedia de.wikipedia