The Jew's Beech av Annette von Droste Hulshoff

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<p>Based on a true story, The Jew''s Beech centres on two brutal murders in rural Westphalia ¿ the first of a local forester and the second of a Jewish moneylender near a beech tree ¿ and the impact these events have on the life of Friedrich Mergel, a local herdsman with a turbulent family history.<br><br>A prototype of the murder mystery and a thoughtful examination of village society, this intriguing novella contains hints of the Gothic and the uncanny ¿ ominous thunderstorms, mysterious disappearances, eerie doppelg¿ers and grisly discoveries in the depths of the forest ¿ as well as a famously ambiguous climax.</p>