Seldwyla Folks


Seldwyla Folks, also published as The People of Seldwyla, is a sequence of novellas by the Swiss writer Gottfried Keller. The ten stories are set around the fictional small town of Seldwyla in Switzerland. Each story is about an obsession or fixation that leads to excess, bigotry or self-indulgence.
The first five stories were written from 1853 to 1855 and published together in 1856. The second half was written from 1860 to 1875, while the finished sequence was published together from 1873 to 1875.

Stories

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  6. "Clothes Make the Man"
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Selected adaptations

A Village Romeo and Juliet, 1907 opera composed by Frederick DeliusKleider machen Leute, 1910 opera composed by Alexander von ZemlinskyClothes Make the Man, 1921 Austrian-German filmKleider machen Leute, 1934 opera composed by Joseph SuderClothes Make the Man, 1940 German filmSpiegel the Cat, 1952 Australian radio play