Röschen, Jaköble und andere kleine Leute

Anna Schieber and Amelia Bauerle (1867-1945)

Approximate level: B1
Length: 70,454 words
Reading time: 5 h 52 min
Chapters: 17
Language: German
On Project Gutenberg since: 2025

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These German children’s stories follow Röschen and other poor village children in everyday life, where family work, hardship, kindness and contentment shape their days. Written around the turn of the twentieth century, the prose uses familiar domestic and rural vocabulary, including older words and regional forms for clothing, chores and farm life. The sentences are often long, with several clauses and older spelling, so you will need to track who is speaking and how each action connects.

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Children's stories, German

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