# Adelbert and Bastel

Author: Hoffmann, Franz, 1814-1882

Genre: Mountain life -- Juvenile fiction

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77915

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Adelbert+and+Bastel+Hoffmann&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

DANIEL BROCKMANN was the most prosperous of the merchant-princes in the rich commercial city of Hamburg. He possessed two magnificent houses: one, conveniently situated near the harbour, containing the offices where his late and widely-extended business was despatched, the counting-house with its numerous clerks and accountants, and the enormous warehouses, in which were stored the products of every nation and climate; the other, quite regal in its grandeur, was an ornament to the "Young Ladies' Walk," a promenade on the banks of the "Alster Bassin," a kind of lake formed by an estuary of the little river "Alster" and whose beauty and style is peculiar to the city of Hamburg. This was his...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/adelbert-and-bastel-77915/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/adelbert-and-bastel-77915/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/adelbert-and-bastel-77915/chapters/1/index.md)