Friedrich de la motte fouqué books

Apart from Undine very little of his massive literary output has survived as popular reading. Even by the end of his own lifetime he ceased to be taken very seriously, despite his earlier connexions with Chamisso, E.

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Friedrich de la motte fouqué books

Previous page Pages: 1 2 3 4 - Next page. Help Edit search New search Author finder. This is page 2 Previous page - Next page. Eine provenzalische Sage in drei Buchern. First edition. Original wraps minus covers. Internally fine. De la Motte Fouque wrote numerous romantic novels and stories, of which the best known today is "Undine. Boston Book Company Professional seller. USD Catalogue: Modern First Editions. Add to shopping cart More information.

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Apart from Undine very little of his massive literary output has survived as popular reading. Even by the end of his own lifetime he ceased to be taken very seriously, despite his earlier connexions with Chamisso, E. Hoffmann and Eichendorff. He married twice, the first time unhappily. His second wife, Caroline, was also a popular novelist in her day. With about a hundred different editions in English up to the present day, published in both Britain and the United States, it proved a runaway success. Some editions were illustrated, others appeared as a plain text. It was made accessible to a wide readership and stage public and was commented on by several men of letters and critics including Coleridge and Edgar Allan Poe. Some girls were even given the name of Undine.

Friedrich de la motte fouqué books

Published in , it is an early German romance, which has been translated into English and other languages. A knight named Huldbrand comes across a fisherman's hut in the forest, and is welcomed in by the fisherman and his wife. He also meets their capricious eighteen-year-old foster daughter, Undine. The fisherman explains that years ago, their young daughter was lost in the lake and apparently drowned, but that same day, Undine appeared on their doorstep. Since then, they have raised her as their own.

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In the period with which we are concerned it is the last of the many adaptations of Undine for the English stage. The translation was by Sir Edmund Gosse, and it was reissued in , but with new illustrations by Florence M. Scarce, Out Of Print, Book. Yonge , the celebrated author of The Heir of Redcliffe and many other books and stories for children, focusses in her introduction on the topic of folk-beliefs about water-spirits. Condition: New. New - Softcover Condition: new. New search - Edit search. Stuttgart, Undine , Sintram , etc. Unread book in perfect condition. Berlin, bb Aufbau-Verlag, These dramatic spectacles, studding nearly a century from to the early s, must have entertained adults and children alike. Britten obviously designed for an adult readership.

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He would then tell afar of her beauty, and such wonderful beings have been given the name of Undines. On Open Book Publishers. Spine worn with surface loss. Charlotte M. The dog appears under the name of Skovmaerke in the final chapters, while the castle perched on the top of a distant mountain must have suggested the Stone Fortress on the Rocks of the Moon, to which Sintram retreats in ascetic isolation. Gilt lettering to spine and indented author and title on front. Pages are gilt-topped, and then off-cut sizing. Can't remember the title or the author of a book? The illustrations include seven full-page images plus decorative surrounding borders on each page, all printed in green, black and sepia. These dramatic spectacles, studding nearly a century from to the early s, must have entertained adults and children alike. Miraculously, the two Germans escape. In other projects. Maxwell, was published by Brodie Books in