Gottfried Keller: A Village Romeo and Juliet: Gottfried Keller [2015] paperback POPSC Depicts young people torn apart

Depicts young people torn apart in a near future setting where humanity has split into two forms: Nox humans who can only go out at night

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which established him as one of the great American writers of his time

Gottfried Keller: A Village Romeo and Juliet: Gottfried Keller [2015] paperback POPSC Depicts young people torn apartA Village Romeo and Juliet is a bitter sweet tragedy telling the tale of two young lovers kept apart by a family feud. Inspired by the story of two real life sweethearts and set in rural Switzerland, it evokes the overwhelming beauty of young love and nature, but is ultimately pessimistic about the possibility of such beauty surviving in the real world. Although it attracted controversy when it was first published in 1856, Keller's timeless novella