Arlo Bates 3 hr 16 min read

A Romantic tale of old Germany, written in frank homage to the immortal 'Undine.'

Arlo Bates's 1890 novel wears its debt openly, offering a picture of the medieval past in the spirit of Fouqué's classic water-spirit romance while insisting it is neither imitation nor rival. A cultivated period piece of literary fantasy from a respected Gilded Age man of letters. Read it for an earnest, well-crafted homage to German Romanticism from an American pen.

In its time

Published in 1890, during the 1890s, wells arrives.

Reading it

3 hr 16 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).