A Life in the Making

A Life in the Making by David Henry Wilson

Over the 29 years of his short life, Franz Michael Felder worked with furious productivity to better himself and the lives of those around him. From his humble origins in the Austrian village of Schoppernau, he went on to found workers' cooperatives, a political party and even a public library in his own home, while also writing many literary works. A Life in the Making is both the culmination of this extraordinary career and a chronicle of its development. It is a story of early hardship and fortitude, of Felder's relentless zeal for learning and his lifelong effort to reconcile his own expanding horizons with the enforced confines of the community he was born to. Unfolding in prose of limpid beauty, A Life in the Making becomes a deeply moving tribute to Felder's wife Nanni, and to his enduring belief in the possibility of a better world.

"One of the masterpieces of 19th-century German literature" -- Polis 

"Exhumed from oblivion… blessed with a strange power… The 21st-century reader will never forget this friend from Schoppernau." -- Le Matricule de Anges 

Franz Michael Felder (1839-1869) was born to a farming family in Schoppernau, Austria. Over the course of his short life, he created a towering legacy as a writer and social reformer. Felder was one of the first Austrian writers to document the farming life he was born to, and he earned a reputation as a rebel through his socially critical writing and work in politics and agricultural reform. He began to write his masterpiece, A Life in the Making, shortly after the death of his beloved wife Nanni, and Felder himself died only months after finishing it.

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ISBN 13	9781782276852
ISBN 10	1782276858
Title	A Life in the Making
Author	David Henry Wilson
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Pushkin Press
Year published	2021-01-28
Number of pages	352
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