Three Nights

The rebellious teacher, Franz Faber, tells of his colleague over three nights the story of how his struggle with life, love, and faith.

"For like the tree imposes its way on the seeds which it releases; like the wave dies off into the next to repeat itself: so too do the child of men inherit the chains of those who produce them, and thousands upon thousands grow and wither to no avail like the grass on the graves."

Hermann Stehr (1864-1940) was a Silesian author of over thirty novels and nove...