Freiherr de Friedrich Heinrich Karl La Motte-Fouqué 1 hr 47 min read

A water-spirit marries a knight and gains a human soul, the haunting German-Romantic fairy tale, in Finnish.

This is a Finnish translation of Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué's beloved 1811 novella 'Undine,' in which the elemental Undine weds a mortal to win a soul, with tragic consequences. One of the most influential of all Romantic fairy tales, echoing through opera, ballet, and fantasy ever since. Read it for a foundational work of literary fantasy, tender and sorrowful in equal measure.

In its time

Published in 1811, during the 1810s, frankenstein's decade.

Reading it

1 hr 47 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).