Among the Gnomes: An Occult Tale of Adventure in the Untersberg

About this book

Beneath Austria's Untersberg mountain lives a society of gnomes with its own institutions, arguments and ambitions. The deeper the visitor travels into their realm, the more suspiciously familiar its problems become.

Franz Hartmann combines encounters with elemental beings and sharp observations of human vanity. The underground society has political factions, rigid certainties and dreams of progress; its disputes eventually become dangerous. The joke grows less comfortable as the visitor discovers how closely the gnomes' troubles resemble those of his own world.