Desirable Alien at Home in Germany

by Ford Madox Ford, Violet Hunt

27 chapters11h 13mEnglish1913

About this book

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

Chapters (26)

1Ch 1: Introduction: How one becomes an alien

1975

2Ch 2: Harem skirts, storks and some social amenities

1515

3Ch 3: Sleepy hollow

1816

4Ch 4: Utopia

813

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

1585

6Ch 6a: Beer gardens v. bear gardens

1389

7Ch 6b: Beer gardens v. bear gardens cont.

1341

8Ch 7: Princes and prescriptions

2085

9Ch 8: Blue pates and Schoppen

2313

10Ch 9: Chests and costumes

2105

11Ch 10: Waiters and policemen

1243

12Ch 11: A Landgräfin and her confessor

1055

13Ch 12: Lions and lace curtains

1360

14Ch 13: Grand dukes and gipsies

1098

15Ch 14: Great danes, geese, mice and schoolmasters

1910

16Ch 15: "Drizzling" and officers

1477

17Ch 16: How it feels to be members of subject races

1181

18Ch 17a: Queens discrowned

2291

19Ch 17b: Queens discrowned cont.

1523

20Ch 18: Bones, babies and anabaptists

846

21Ch 19: Celle

1425

22Ch 20a: Trier

1440

23Ch 20b: Trier cont.

1619

24Ch 21a: Take us little foxes

1643

25Ch 21b: Take us little foxes cont.

1824

26Ch 22: Envoi

857

Desirable Alien at Home in Germany

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Chapters (26)

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