Undine by Freiherr de Friedrich Heinrich Karl La Motte-Fouqué
The water-spirit Undine, given a soul only through the love of a mortal knight, comes to earth to win Sir Huldbrand's heart, a doomed, beautiful union of the human and the elemental.
La Motte-Fouqué's 1811 novella is a foundational classic of Romantic fantasy. Lyrical, poignant, immensely influential. Read it for one of the loveliest of all fairy tales, the tender, tragic romance of a soulless water-nymph and the knight she loves, from a master of German Romanticism, a story that enchanted the whole nineteenth century and shaped modern fantasy.
- In its time
- Published in 1811, during the 1810s, frankenstein's decade.
- Reading it
- 1 hr 54 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).
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