Romantic Fairy Tales

by Carol Tully, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Ludwig Tieck

Book Overview

The four works collected in this volume reveal the fascinating preoccupations of the German Romantic movement, which revelled in the inexplicable, the uncanny and the unknown and, especially, the mysterious world of the fairy tale. Goethe's richly imaginative Fairy Tale (1795) depicts an ethereal underground realm and the marriage of a beautiful man and woman, whose union heralds a new age. In Tieck's Eckbert the Fair (1797) two outsiders seek refuge...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140447326
• ISBN13: 9780140447323
• Release Date: December 2000
• Publisher: Penguin Group
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 7.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher