Romantic fairy tales
By: translated and edited by Carol Tully.
Contributors: Tully, Carol Lisa.; Tieck, Ludwig, 1773-1853.; Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832.; Brentano, Clemens, 1778-1842.; La Motte-Fouqué, Friedrich Heinrich Karl, Freiherr de, 1777-1843.
Series: Penguin classics
Publisher: Penguin Books; Penguin Classics
Published: 2000
Place of publication: London
Language: eng; ger
Number of pages: 158
Subjects: Fairy tales -- Germany.; Short stories, German -- Translations into English.; German fiction -- 18th century -- Translations into English.; German fiction -- 19th century -- Translations into English.
Genres: Translations into English.
Other titles: Goethe, Tieck, Fouqué, Brentano; Goethe, Tieck, Fouqué, Brentano, romantic fairy tales; Blonde Eckbert; Märchen; Geschichte vom braven Kasper und dem shönen Annerl; Undine
Description: "Deeply affected by the turmoil of the French Revolution and Napoleonic era, many of the great German Romantics adopted the Kunstmarchen or 'literary fairy tale' to express their fascination with mystery, medievalism and the darker side of human nature." "Although he was a committed Classicist, Goethe helped establish the genre in his richly imaginative Fairy Tale (1795). Ludwig Tieck's Eckbert the Fair (1797) depicts a pair of outsiders who have sought refuge from the world in the solitude of dark woods and in scandalous incestuous passion, while Friedrich de la Motte Fouque's Undine (1811) is a water nymph who falls in love, acquires a soul and so discovers the reality of human suffering. In Clemens Brentano's Tale of Honest Casper and Fair Annie (1817), a young couple is engulfed by tragedy due to a false sense of honour and pride, which has been-passed down to them through the generations."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Translated from the German.
Table of contents: title: The fairy tale / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; title: Ekbert the fair / Ludwig Tieck; title: Undine / Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué; title: The tale of honest Casper and fair Annie /  Clemens Bretano.