Der Nachsommer

Indian Summer
Title page of first edition
AuthorAdalbert Stifter
Original titleDer Nachsommer
TranslatorWendell Frye
LanguageGerman
GenreNovel
PublisherPeter Lang
Publication date
1857
Publication placeAustria
Media typePrint
Pages479 pp
OCLC11756304
833/.7 19
LC ClassPT2525.N3 E5 1985

Der Nachsommer (English: Indian Summer; subtitled A Tale; 1857) is a novel in three volumes by Adalbert Stifter. A 19th century Bildungsroman that describes the journey of an idealistic, sheltered young man from childhood to maturity, it combines aspects of Biedermeier thought with elements of German humanism to create what is generally considered to be a great work of German bourgeois realism.