Ekkehard
by Joseph Victor Scheffel
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One of my mother’s favourite books and the only one, which had survived out of her library. « Ekkehard » had aroused my interest for the Middle Ages. Later on, when I had problems in school because of my mother’s early death, the monk of St. Gallen encouraged me every day.
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- Canonical title*
- Ekkehard
- Original title
- Ekkehard
- Alternate titles*
- Ekkehard : het verhaal van Hadwig, de Hertogin van Zwaben en Ekkehard, den monnik van St. Gallus; Ekkehard : een verhaal uit de tiende eeuw
- Original publication date
- 1857
- People/Characters
- Ekkehard; Hedwig
- Important places*
- Zwarte Woud, Baden-Württemberg, Duitsland
- First words*
- Dies Buch ward verfaßt in dem guten Glauben, daß es weder der Geschichtsschreibung noch der Poesie etwas schaden kann, wenn sie innige Freundschaft miteinander schließen und sich zu gemeinsamer Arbeit vereinen.
- Original language
- German
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- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction, Historical Fiction
- DDC/MDS
- 830 — Literature & rhetoric German & related literatures German literature and literatures of related languages
- LCC
- PT2462 .E3 — Language and Literature German, Dutch and Scandinavian literatures German literature Individual authors or works 1700-ca. 1860/70
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- Languages
- 5 — Dutch, English, Estonian, German, Lithuanian
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 13
- ASINs
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