The dykemaster
By: Theodor Storm ; translated with notes by Denis Jackson ; afterword by David A. Jackson.
Contributors: Jackson, Denis.
Series: Angel classics
Publisher: Angel Books; U.S. distributor, Dufour Editions
Published: 1996
Place of publication: London; Chester Springs, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 156
Subjects: Dikes (Engineering) -- Germany -- Schleswig-Holstein -- Fiction.; Schleswig-Holstein (Germany) -- Fiction.
Description: The Dykemaster is the tale of a visionary young north Friesian Deichgraf of the 18th century, creator of a new form of dyke. The short-sighted and self-seeking community with which he is at odds turns him into a phantom, seen riding his grey along the dyke whenever the sea threatens to break through. The rationalistic storyteller, in a highly sophisticated narrative structure, belongs to a later age, and what he relates is a veiled critique of the dyke officials of his.

Own day.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.