Undine
10 best books like Undine (Friedrich Heinrich Karl de la Motte Fouqué): Daddy-Long-Legs & Dear Enemy, Penthesilea: A Tragic Drama, Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschichte, The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry, Der goldne Topf, Der blonde Eckbert / Der Runenberg, The Celtic Twilight: Faerie and Folklore, The Ghost-seer, Die Marquise von O... / Das Erdbeben in Chili, The Fisherman and His Soul
Daddy-Long-Legs & Dear Enemy
| Author | Jean Webster |
| ISBN | 0143039067 |
One of the great novels of American girlhood, Jean Webster's Daddy-Long- Legs (1912) follows the adventures of an orphan named Judy Abbott, whose letters to her anonymous male benefactor trace her development as an independent thinker and writer. Its sequel, Dear Enemy (1915), also told in letters,...
Penthesilea: A Tragic Drama
| Author | Heinrich von Kleist |
| ISBN | 0060956321 |
An army of Amazons sets out to conquer Greek heroes for the purpose of stocking their women's state with new female offspring. They blast into the midst of the Trojan War, confusing Greeks and Trojans alike and for a moment forcing those enemies into a terrified alliance. When Achilles, the pride and...
| Author | Adelbert von Chamisso |
Adelbert von Chamissos 1814 erschienene phantastische Erzählung 'Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschichte' handelt von einem sanften, weltfremden Jüngling, der einem rätselhaften Mann in einem grauen Rock seinen Schatten verkauft. Er ist jedoch außerstande, den so erworbenen Reichtum...
'To burn always with this hard gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.'
The Renaissance (1873) at once became the touchstone for the decadent imagination for a generation of Oxford undergraduates. Pater was shocked at the reaction his book inspired: 'I wish they would...
| Author | E.T.A. Hoffmann |
| ISBN | 3150001013 |
I don't like this, I thought.
Clumsy Anselmus makes a silly appearance (well described, admittedly), causing a mess of carts and apples and people in a market place. I hate slapstick, and I hate clumsiness in literature, having to live with it every minute of every day in my real life!
I...
Αρχικά, πήγα σε μια περιοχή του Χάρτς όπου ζούσε ένας ιππότης. Ο ξανθός Έκμπερτ.
Αργότερα ανέβηκα το μαγικό βουνό Ρούνενμπεργκ.
Εκεί, σε αυτά τα θαυμαστά...
| Author | W.B. Yeats |
| ISBN | 0486436578 |
Best known for his poetry, William Butler Yeats (1865–1939) was also a dedicated exponent of Irish folklore. Yeats took a particular interest in the tales' mythic and magical roots. The Celtic Twilight ventures into the eerie and puckish world of fairies, ghosts, and spirits. "This handful of dreams,"...
| Author | Friedrich Schiller |
| ISBN | 1843910349 |
Friedrich von Schiller’s only novel, The Ghost-seer is an experimental, deliberately fragmentary work. Thrillingly held together by its dramatic plot and lavish, operatic setting, it is a multi-layered fiction of deceptive simplicity. For a rich young prince and his loyal companion, Venice...
| Author | Heinrich von Kleist |
| ISBN | 3150080029 |
Beim Erscheinen im Jahr 1808 wurde Heinrich von Kleists 'Die Marquise von O...' wegen der angedeuteten Vergewaltigung als Skandalgeschichte empfunden. Heute gilt die Erzählung als ein frühes Beispiel weiblicher Emanzipation. Am Schicksal der Marquise, die in einem existenziellen Konflikt...
The Fisherman and His Soul
To get what we want is often the greatest curse of all. The fisherman here accidentally catches a mermaid in his net. He falls in love with the Mermaid and tells her that he wants to marry her. She tells him that he can only marry her if he sends away his soul. From a Witch, the Fisherman learns how to send his...
