Heinrich Zschokke 3 hr 46 min read

A tale of secret brotherhoods and adventure, the concluding volume of an eighteenth-century German romance.

Heinrich Zschokke's 1795 novel ('The Black Brothers: An Adventurous Tale,' Part Three) is a Gothic-tinged adventure romance of the late Enlightenment, in the era's popular vein of conspiracies and mysterious societies. A period piece of German pre-Romantic fiction. Read it for the shadowy intrigues and derring-do that thrilled readers at the close of the eighteenth century.

In its time

Published in 1795, during the Pre-1800, voyages to the moon, subterranean worlds, and philosophical utopias, the deep roots of the imaginative tradition, from kepler and cyrano to the enlightenment.

Reading it

3 hr 46 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).