The Marquise of O - : And Other Stories
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0140443592
ISBN-13
9780140443592
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint
Penguin Classics
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jun 29th, 1978
Print length
336 Pages
Weight
252 grams
Dimensions
19.70 x 12.90 x 2.10 cms
Product Classification:
Classic fiction (pre c 1945)Short stories
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Brings together eight short stories by the intense 19th-century German author.
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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