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Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschichte
Adelbert von Chamisso · 1814
Original text in German. In English: Peter Schlemihl.
The tale of an absurd bargain, written in the midst of war by a Frenchman who became a German writer, in which a man gives up his shadow in exchange for a bottomless purse.
Tale · 13 parts · about 21 000 words · about 1 h 30 of reading
Contents
- An meinen alten Freund Peter Schlemihl1 min
- An Julius Eduard Hitzig von Adelbert von Chamisso2 min
- 110 min
- 28 min
- 36 min
- 414 min
- 59 min
- 69 min
- 76 min
- 88 min
- 96 min
- 104 min
- 116 min
About this text
Adelbert von Chamisso († 1838): public-domain work. The text is that of the Project Gutenberg e-book (no. 31538). Erostrate has not changed a single word: only the layout and the division into pages are ours.
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