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Uncanny love and tragedy bloom in a world of Romantic fairy tales.
Romantic Fairy Tales
Romantic Fairy Tales
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192 pages
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22 February 2007
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Summary
The four works collected in this volume reveal the fascinating preoccupations of the German Romantic movement, which revelled in the inexplicable, the uncanny and the unknown and, especially, the mysterious world of the fairy tale.
Goethe’s richly imaginative Fairy Tale (1795) depicts an ethereal underground realm and the marriage of a beautiful man and woman, whose union heralds a new age.
In Tieck’s Eckbert the Fair (1797) two outsiders seek refuge in the s…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140447323 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140447326 |
| Author: | Carol Tully |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 22 February 2007 |
| Weight: | 145g |
| Dimensions: | 11mm x 129mm x 198mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
A-Format111 × 178 mm
B-Format130 × 198 mm
129 × 198 mm
C-Format153 × 234 mm
A4210 × 297 mm
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About The Author
Carol Tully
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832): Author of the poetic drama, Faust, and the novel, The Sorrows of Young Werther.
- Ludwig Tieck (1773-1853): Romantic and later Realist writer, translator of Cervantes and Shakespeare.
- Friedrich de la Motte Fouque (1777-1843): Prolific writer and most widely read of Romantics.
- Clemens Brentano (1778-1842): Part of the younger generation of Romantics, later abandoned writing for the Catholic faith.
- Carol Tully: Lecturer in German at the University of Wales, Bangor.
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