Hermann Löns 4 hr 42 min read

A love story shadowed by 'second sight', the gift of foreseeing what is to come, set in the North German moors.

Hermann Löns's 1917 novel opens with a dancing moor-witch and weaves folklore, fate, and romance through the heathland the author loved. Lyrical, atmospheric German-language fantasy. Read it for an evocative regional love story steeped in moorland legend and premonition.

In its time

Published in 1917, during the 1910s, lost worlds and interplanetary adventure.

Reading it

4 hr 42 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).