Paul Flemming, a young American mourning a loss, drifts along the Rhine, settles among the scholars of Heidelberg and later climbs into the Alps, talking German poetry and philosophy with a genial baron. In Switzerland he meets Mary Ashburton, an Englishwoman who does not return his feelings.
Longfellow’s prose romance of 1839, drawn from his own travels and courtship, introduced German Romanticism to many American readers. Download the free EPUB.