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Translation and introduction © 1964 Douglas Parmée

Afterword © 2011 by Phillip Lopate

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First published as Unwiederbringlich, 1891
This translation first published under the title Beyond Recall, 1964

Cover image: Vilhelm Hammershøi, Interior, Strandgade 30, 1908

Cover design: Katy Homans

The Library of Congress has cataloged the earlier printing as follows:

Fontane, Theodor, 1819–1898.

[Unwiederbringlich. English]

Beyond recall / by Theodor Fontane ; afterword by Phillip Lopate ; translated [from the German] by Douglas Parmée.

p. cm. — (New York Review Books classics)

ISBN 978-1-59017-374-9 (alk. paper)

1. Married people—Fiction. 2. Domestic fiction. I. Parmée, Douglas. II. Title.

PT1863.U6513 2011

833'.8—dc22

2010033640

eISBN 978-1-59017-569-9
v1.0

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