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Adelbert von Chamisso

Lifespan
1781 – 1838
Nationality
German
Active
1814 – 1922
Works held
6

Adelbert von Chamisso (1781–1838) was a French-born German Romantic writer and botanist, remembered in the fantastic tradition for Peter Schlemihl’s Remarkable Story (1814), the fable of a man who sells his shadow to the devil. A crisp, resonant parable of alienation, it influenced generations of fantasists. Chamisso was also a serious naturalist who sailed on a scientific voyage around the world.

The works

  1. 1922
    Cover of La mirinda historio de Petro Schlemihl La mirinda historio de Petro Schlemihl
  2. 1814
    Cover of Peter Schlemihl Peter Schlemihl Cover of Peter Schlemihl Peter Schlemihl Cover of Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschichte Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschichte Cover of Pietari Schlemihl'in eriskummalliset elämänvaiheet Pietari Schlemihl'in eriskummalliset elämänvaiheet Cover of The Marvellous History of the Shadowless Man, and The Cold Heart The Marvellous History of the Shadowless Man, and The Cold Heart

Wrote across

1810s1920s

Recurring themes

Fantasy

Kindred authors shared themes

A. A. MilneAbbie Farwell BrownAbbie Phillips WalkerAdélaïde de MontgolfierAlain René Le SageAlbert Bigelow PaineAlexandre DumasAlexandre Dumas Auguste Maquet

Contemporaries writing in the same era

Edgar Rice BurroughsH. P. LovecraftMary Wollstonecraft ShelleyRay CummingsRobert E. HowardRuth Plumly ThompsonE. T. A. HoffmannEdmond HamiltonVariousVictor Appleton

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