ENGLISH

The Marquise of O and Other Stories

By Heinrich von Kleist , Nigel Reeves , David Luke

Book information

Publisher
Penguin Classics
Year
1978
ISBN
0140443592, 9780140443592
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
6 MB (6677528 bytes)
Series
Penguin Classics
Pages
320\320
DPI
600
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2013-07-10 13:32:00

Description

In The Marquise of O-, a virtuous widow finds herself unaccountably pregnant. And although the baffled Marquise has no idea when this happened, she must prove her innocence to her doubting family and discover whether the perpetrator is an assailant or lover. Michael Kohlhaas depicts an honourable man who feels compelled to violate the law in his search for justice, while other tales explore the singular realm of the uncanny, such as The Beggarwoman of Locarno, in which an old woman's ghost drives a heartless nobleman to madness, and St Cecilia, which portrays four brothers possessed by an uncontrollable religious mania. The stories collected in this volume reflect the preoccupations of Heinrich von Kleist (1777-1811) with the deceptiveness of human nature and the unpredictability of the physical world.

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