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The Breaking of the Storm

work by Spielhagen

Also known as: “Sturmflut”

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In Friedrich von Spielhagen
(1869; Hammer and Anvil), and Sturmflut, 3 vol. (1877; The Breaking of the Storm). The last is a powerful romance, using a tempest that flooded the Baltic coast in 1872 as a symbol for the economic storm that burst on Berlin that same year.
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