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Clothes Make the Man (novella)

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Clothes Make the Man (German: Kleider machen Leute) is a German-language short story or novella by Gottfried Keller. The story comes from Keller's cycle of novellas The People from Seldwyla (Die Leute von Seldwyla) and first appeared in 1874 in the third volume of the second edition of Keller's cycle. The plot concerns Wenzel, a penniless tailor of Seldwyla who - because of the luxurious suit he has made for himself - is mistaken for a young lord when arriving at the Swiss town of Goldach. The tailor is feted by the townsfolk and attracts the attention of a high-born young woman, Nettchen.[1]

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  1. ^ Studies in short fiction 1985 - Volumes 1-20; Volume 22 - Page 465 "In fact it is because Fortune rather than Fate drives the plot of Clothes Make the Man that the tenor of Keller's Novelle is so ... of evoking a sense of wonder in the townspeople of Goldach , where he moves to from his home town of Seldwyla ."