Peter Schlemihl: A German Tale of a Lost Shadow
Sep 2026 · Aeneas Press
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A young man sells his shadow to a stranger in gray for a purse that never empties, and finds that nobody will tolerate a man without one. Chamisso wrote it in 1813, a Frenchman who had become a German and knew what it was to belong nowhere; he later sailed round the world as a naturalist. This edition adds fifty-six plates of painting, among them works by Carl Spitzweg, Edvard Munch and Jacob Philipp Hackert, and one restored and coloured illustration.
A young man sells his shadow to a stranger in gray for a purse that never empties, and finds that nobody will tolerate a man without one. Chamisso wrote it in 1813, a Frenchman who had become a German and knew what it was to belong nowhere; he later sailed round the world as a naturalist. This ed...
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Adelbert von Chamisso (1781-1838) was a German writer and botanist born in Champagne, whose family fled the French Revolution. He served in the Prussian army, sailed round the world on a Russian scientific expedition, and became curator of the Berlin botanical garden. His works include Peter Schlemihl and the poems set by Schumann as Frauenliebe und -leben.
Adelbert von Chamisso (1781-1838) was a German writer and botanist born in Champagne, whose family fled the French Revolution. He served in the Prussian army, sailed round the world on a Russian scientific expedition, and became curator of the Berlin botanical garden. His works include Peter Schl...
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