Seed-time and Harvest

"Seed-time and Harvest: A Novel" by Fritz Reuter is a novel of realistic fiction. Written in Low German, it portrays life in rural Mecklenburg in the 1840s in the context of the Revolutions of 1848. The novel was autobiographically inspired as Reuter had himself worked as an apprentice farmer during the era. Its German popularity helped the book move past its borders to gain a wider audience around the world.