"An NYRB Classics Original It is a sunny summer Sunday in a remote Swiss village, and a christening is being celebrated at a lovely old farmhouse. One of the guests notes an anomaly in the fabric of
Die Schwarze Spinne is a religious allegory about morals and religious living in the mid-ninteenth century, written by Jeremios Gotthelf. This work is an interlinear translation of Gotthelf's Die Schw