Indian Summer

This is one of Stifters great epic works, a most sensitive account of the formative years in the life of Heinrich, a student of natural sciences, born into a bourgeois environment, but influenced and gently guided by a nobleman, the old Baron von Risach. It is in fact the barons own reminiscences which give the book its title. Comparable in some ways to Gottfried Kellers Der grne Heinrich this novel, nevertheless, reflects Stifters own moral values, his ethical thinking and his deep reverence for nature.