Rock Crystal by Adalbert Stifter PAPERBACK 9781908968319

Rock Crystal\nby Adalbert Stifter\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nDelivery\nUsually delivered in 6\u20137 working days.\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Adalbert Stifter\nTitle: Rock Crystal\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Classic fiction: general and literary\nPublisher: Pushkin Press\nPublication year: 2012\nISBN-13: 9781908968319\nISBN-10: 1908968311\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nAdalbert Stifter's Rock Crystal is a Christmas story and a story about the heart of the ice, the crystal.\nThe charm of this quasi-fairy tale is made even more poignant by the knowledge of the author's eventual suicide. This seemingly simple fable of two children lost in an icy landscape is eloquent in its innocence, but is implicit with an unremitting consciousness of the fragility of life and the inevitability of death.