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Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts

Joseph von Eichendorff

A miller's son who would rather play his fiddle than work sets off into the wide world, becomes a gardener and toll-keeper at a castle near Vienna, falls in love with a beautiful lady he thinks he can never have, and wanders all the way to Rome and back. Eichendorff's sunny Romantic novella, with all its songs, in simpler German at B1 level, every chapter kept in full and a German glossary after each one.

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