The World's Great Masterpieces

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012 - 300 pages
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: FRIEDRICH HEINRICH KARL FOUQUE. Fbiedbich Heinbich Kabl Fouque, Baron Db La Motte, a German novelist, dramatist, and poet, born at Brandenburg, on the Havel, Feb. 12, 1777; died in Berlin, Jan. 23, 1843. Sprung from a noble family, he served in the wars of the French Republic and against Napoleon. He left the army in 1813, and devoted himself to literary pursuits. But before this, he had been a voluminous author, writing mainly under the pseudonym of Pellegrin. Toward the close of his life he lectured at Halle upon poetry and literature in general, and went to Berlin for the purpose of lecturing there, but died suddenly before commencing his lectures. His works in prose and verse, and dramas, are very numerous, the earliest appearing in 1804, and the latest being published in 1844 ? the year after his death. Two years before his death he prepared a collection of his Select Works in twelve volumes. Of his tales, The Magic Ring, Sintram, and Aslauga's Knight, have been translated into English, the last by Carlyle, in his German Romance. The most popular of Fouque's works is Undine, first published in 1811, of which upward of twenty-five German editions have been published; and it has been translated into nearly every European language. How Undine Came To The Fisherman. (From Undine.) It is now ? the fisherman said ? about fifteen years ago that I was one day crossing the wild forest with my goods, on my way to the city. My wife had stayed at home, as her wont is; and at this particular time for a very good reason, for God had given us in our tolerably advanced age a wonderfully beautiful child. It was a little girl; and a question always arose between us whether for the sake of the new-comer we would not leave our lovely home that we might better ...

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