Bunte Steine: ein Festgeschenk von Adalbert Stifter

Novel, first published in 1853, in the original German. According to Wikipedia: "Adalbert Stifter (23 October 1805 – 28 January 1868) was an Austrian writer, poet, painter, and pedagogue. He was especially notable for the vivid natural landscapes depicted in his writing, and has long been popular in the German-speaking world, while almost entirely unknown to English readers."