The dark count
The Dark Count is the title of a historical novel by Ludwig Bechstein published in 1854 .
content
The novel is based on the story of the "Dunkelgrafen" and the "Dunkelgräfin" , a couple shrouded in mystery who lived from 1810 to 1837 in a castle in the village of Eishausen near Hildburghausen. In the first two parts (“The Young Man”, “The Refugees”), the unclear stories of origin of the young Count Ludwig Carl and the girl Sophie Charlotte are told, before the third part (“The silent castle”) takes the story of Eishausen near Hildburghausen relocated.
The dark count was published in an edition of 10,000 copies as the third volume of the series "Deutsche Bibliothek" edited by Otto Müller (1816-1894), a "Collection of selected original novels" published by Meidinger in Frankfurt (after 12 volumes and the bankruptcy of the publisher Discontinued in 1857).
expenditure
- Ludwig Bechstein: The Dark Count . Meidinger, Frankfurt (Main) 1854 ( digitized and full text in the German text archive ).
Web links
- Melchior Meyr : Critical review of the original edition (in Deutsches Museum , No. 7, 1855)
- Susanne Schmidt-Knaebel: Bechstein Texts: Novels: Spätwerk (University of Hamburg, 2002)