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Desirable Alien at Home in Germany

A travel journal of a year the author spent in Germany. With a preface and two additional chapters by her partner, the novelist Ford Madox Ford (here using the surname Hueffer). - Summary by barbara2 (11 hr 13 min)

Chapters

Preface by FMF

Ch 1: Introduction: How one becomes an alien

Ch 2: Harem skirts, storks and some social amenities

Ch 3: Sleepy hollow

Ch 4: Utopia

Ch 5: Pax Germanica: servants, fairy tales and tailors

Ch 6a: Beer gardens v. bear gardens

Ch 6b: Beer gardens v. bear gardens cont.

Ch 7: Princes and prescriptions

Ch 8: Blue pates and Schoppen

Ch 9: Chests and costumes

Ch 10: Waiters and policemen

Ch 11: A Landgräfin and her confessor

Ch 12: Lions and lace curtains

Ch 13: Grand dukes and gipsies

Ch 14: Great danes, geese, mice and schoolmasters

Ch 15: "Drizzling" and officers

Ch 16: How it feels to be members of subject races

Ch 17a: Queens discrowned

Ch 17b: Queens discrowned cont.

Ch 18: Bones, babies and anabaptists

Ch 19: Celle

Ch 20a: Trier

Ch 20b: Trier cont.

Ch 21a: Take us little foxes

Ch 21b: Take us little foxes cont.

Ch 22: Envoi