The mail-cart rattles down to meet the train at a sleepy provincial station, bringing a man home after years abroad. He returns to his friend, his family estate and the woman bound up with the guilt that drove him away, and the novel traces how the past, which everyone hoped was buried, reasserts its hold.
A powerful psychological novel by one of the leading German writers of the 1890s, in Beatrice Marshall’s translation. Download the free EPUB.