The Black Spider

by Jeremias Gotthelf

Book Overview

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 the venerable edifice: a blackened post that has been carefully built into a trim new window frame. Thereby hangs a tale, one that, as the wise old grandfather who has lived all his life in the house proceeds to tell it, takes one chilling turn after another,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1590176685
• ISBN13: 9781590176689
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: New York Review of Books
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 7.9"