Author: Fouque, Baron [ Frederick ] De La Motte & Tracy, Reverend Thomas [translator]
Title: Undine : Or, The Spirit Of The Waters - A Romance
Description: published by J Clements, Little Pulteney Street for the proprietors of The Romancist & Novelists Library, 1841, reprint. Disbound, 48pp, pages a little tanned & thumbed, in need of some TLC. Disbound , no dustjacket. ¶ Early reprint of Tracy's English translation of a novella, based on a tale from Paracelsus, by the German romantic writer Frederick De La Motte, Baron Fouque [ 1777 - 1843 ], in which Undine, a water spirit, marries a knight named Huldbrand in order to gain a soul.

Keywords: german literature, fairy tales