Freiherr de Friedrich Heinrich Karl La Motte-Fouqué 2 hr 50 min read

In a world of knights, sea-kings, and enchantments, the chivalrous Sir Folko of Montfaucon is drawn into the quest and mystery of a magic ring.

Baron de la Motte Fouqué's 1825 romance (volume one), by the author of Undine, is a classic of German Romantic fantasy. Chivalric, dreamlike, richly imagined. Read it for a sweeping medieval fairy-romance of knighthood and sorcery from a founding master of the fantastic, whose tales enchanted the Romantic age, a foundational European fantasy, vividly translated for English readers.

In its time

Published in 1825, during the 1820s, tales of mesmerism, ghosts, and the fantastic voyage flourish in the romantic imagination.

Reading it

2 hr 50 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).