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Friedrich de la Motte Fouque wrote the German romance novella Undine. This early German romance has been translated into several languages and has been adapted into two ballets and two operas. Undine is a water spirit who must marry in order to gain a soul. When a knight meets Undine, who is living in the forest with a poor fisherman and his wife, he has misgivings about her supernatural powers. Even though he is given warnings he still wants to marry her.
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Friedrich Heinrich Karl de la Motte, Baron Fouque (12 February 1777 - 23 January 1843) was a German writer of the romantic style."
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"It is the 12th century, the era of Richard the Lionheart and the Third Crusade. Along the Danube, the tranquil world of the young squire Otto and his cousin Bertha is changed forever when they witness a knightly contest for possession of a Magic Ring. Soon both are drawn into a quest that transforms them and endangers all they love"--Page 4 of cover.
Reproduction of the original.
At the start of the nineteenth century, German "Schauerliteratur" was so popular as to permanently associate that land with the Gothic and the ghostly. Translations of short pieces published in journals like The German Museum and Blackwood's Magazine started a vogue for this new kind of fiction amongst the English reading public. The present anthology, the first of its kind in a decade, collects together examples of these tales from many of the great masters of the genre, including Friedrich de La Motte Fouqué, Johann Karl August Musäus, Louisa Drachmann, and Heinrich Clauren. Featuring bandits, cursed knights, tragic spectres, witch cults, diabolical bargains and the thirsting dead, the pieces in this volume mark the point at which the Gothic novels of the eighteenth century met the psychological intensity of Romanticism in the birth of the modern horror story.