Undine
Author: first_name:  Friedrich de la Motte
last_name: Fouqué
Language: English
Year: 1811

<em>Undine</em> is a novel by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué concerning Undine, a water spirit who marries a Knight named Huldbrand in order to gain a soul. It is an early German romance, which has been translated into English and other languages. The novel served as inspiration for two operas in the romantic style by Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann and Albert Lortzing, respectively, and two ballets: the nineteenth century <em>Ondine</em> and the twentieth century <em>Undine</em>. An edition of the