THE INNOCENTS And Other Stories by GERTRUD VON LE FORT

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Newly translated into English for the first time, these four novellas from the acclaimed German writer Gertrud von le Fort (author of THE SONG AT THE SCAFFOLD) are from her later works of historical fiction. Ominous and mysterious, these page-turning stories bring to life momentous chapters from the past. The titles are THE INNOCENTS, set in Germany after World War II, is a poignant family drama about the horrors of war, the innocent’s suffering and the demands of justice. THE OSTRACIZED WOMAN traces the fate of a Prussian family at the end of World War II to the heroic deed of an ancestor done centuries before. THE LAST MEETING imagines an encounter between two real-life rival mistresses of King Louis XIV of France. THE TOWER OF CONSTANCE leads the reader into the heart of the infamous French prison of the same name while exploring the role of conscience in the religious and philosophical conflicts of eighteenth-century Europe. Paper.