Peter Schlemihl, by Adelbert von Chamisso
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Title: Peter Schlemihl
Author: Adelbert von Chamisso
Release Date: June 26, 2007 Language: English
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***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PETER SCHLEMIHL***
Transcribed from the 1861 Robert Hardwicke edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org
PETER SCHLEMIHL:
FROM THE GERMAN
OF
ADELBERT VON CHAMISSO:
TRANSLATED
BY SIR JOHN BOWRING, LL.D., &c. WITH PLATES BY GEORGE CRUIKSHANK. “There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”—SHAKSPEAKE.
THIRD EDITION. LONDON: ROBERT HARDWICKE, 192, PICCADILLY. 1861.
LONDON: ROBERT HARDWICKE, PRINTER,
p. 4
192, PICCADILLY .
NOTICE.
Adelung said to me one day at Petersburg—“Have you read Peter Schlemihl? ”—“No.”—“If you read it, you will translate it.”—I have translated it. The story is a moral one. I leave its development to my readers. It would be little flattering to them to suspect they required my assistance, in order to discover the obvious lessons it conveys. I have not scrupled to introduce a ...
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