Download or read book Brigitta and Other Tales written by Adalbert Stifter and published by Penguin Classics. This book was released on 1994 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each of these four stories is set in a recognisable world depicted with a measured realism. But once the reader has learned to look beneath the calm, apparently seamless surface of the narrative, and in Stifter's words, 'to see with an eye of the heart', strange tensions are revealed.