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"Aquis Submersus" by Theodor Storm is a novella published in 1876. Set in 17th-century Germany after the Thirty Years' War, it tells the tragic love story between Johannes, a painter of common birth, and Katharina, a noblewoman. Their romance faces opposition from her brutal brother, who insists on an aristocratic marriage. Through a frame narrative structure, the tale unfolds via discovered manuscripts, revealing how class prejudice and fate conspire against the lovers, leading to devastating consequences that echo across generations. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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