Told through the alternating journals of Elsè and her brother Friedrich, children of a household in Eisenach, the novel follows a family whose friend Martin Luther becomes the storm-centre of the Reformation. Friedrich enters the monastery and the university at Wittenberg, while Elsè records home, faith and the changes sweeping their town.
Hugely popular in its day, this novel of religious history brings Luther’s Germany close to the reader. Download the free EPUB.