In St. Jürgen: Novelle (1867)

"In St. Jürgen: Novelle" by Theodor Storm is a novella written in 1867. An elderly servant woman, Agnes Hansen, finally reveals why she—daughter of a respected merchant—lived as a maid. Her story unfolds through interconnected narratives: her father's financial ruin after squandering her fiancé's inheritance searching for buried treasure, and her lifelong separation from Harre Jensen, who left to rebuild his fortune but became trapped by other obligations. Decades later, fate brings them together one final time. (This is an automatically generated summary.)