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The book that inspired Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings! It is the twelfth century, the era of Richard the Lion-heart and the Third Crusade. Along the Danube, the tranquil world shared by the young squire Otto and his cousin Bertha is changed forever when they witness a knightly contest for possession of a magic ring. Soon both are drawn into a quest that transforms them and endangers all they love. The resulting adventures lead each to different paths of enchantment and peril, from the mysteries of Moorish Spain to the birthplace of Norse mythology. While navigating an ever-changing sea of allies and foes, both natural and magical, the two seek love, honor, survival, and a ring that possesses more power than either can possibly understand. A seamless blend of medieval quest, epic fantasy, and Gothic nightmare, The Magic Ring draws on an impressive host of inspirations, such as Germanic folk tales and Icelandic sagas, Arthurian romance and Gothic horror. This novel has earned its place as a text of considerable historical significance, and yet it continues to offer an exhilarating reading experience for the modern audience. This edition includes the complete original text of the first English version of The Magic Ring, the 1825 translation by Robert Pearse Gillies, as well as a scholarly introduction, a glossary of literary influences and references, and the complete text of Fouqué's 1820 short story "The Field of Terror," also translated by Gillies.
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These four tales were intended by the Author to be appropriate to the Four Seasons: the stern, grave "Sintram ", to winter; the tearful, smiling, fresh "Undine ", to spring; the torrid deserts of the "Two Captains ", to summer; and the sunset gold of "Aslauga's Knight ", to autumn. Find all four tales in this omnibus volume, "The Four Seasons ". Winter: "Sintram and His Companions" From boyhood, Sintram must battle between the violent customs fostered by his father and the pious lifestyle adopted by his mother Spring: "Undine, The Water Sprite" An elemental being marries a human, the Knight Huldbrand, in order to gain a soul. Summer: "The Two Captains" The friendship of German Captain, Sir Heimbert of Waldhausen, and Spanish Captain, Don Frederigo Mendez, is tested by love and war. Autumn: "Aslauga's Knight" Ghosts and witches, magic and combat, abound in this knightly tale of chivalrous love and friendship.
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Four tales are, it is said, intended by the Author to be appropriate to the Four Seasons: the stern, grave "Sintram", to winter; the tearful, smiling, fresh "Undine", to Spring; the torrid deserts of the "Two Captains", to summer; and the sunset gold of "Aslauga's Knight", to autumn. Of these two are before us.
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Sintram and His Companions The Two Captains Aslauga's Knight
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He was born on the 12th of February 1777 at Brandenburg. His grandfather had been one of Frederick the Great's generals and his father was a Prussian officer. His mother Louise (nee von Schlegel) came from an old noble family. She was the goddaughter of Prussian King Frederick II.
His mother tried to direct him toward science and education. For this purpose Augustus Hulzen was invited as a teacher in the house. Under his leadership, Friedrich proceeds to study the ancient Greek language and works of Homer, gets acquainted with the samples of the German heroic epic of Edda and the great works of dramatic art of Shakespeare.
Although not originally intended for a military career, Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué ultimately gave up his university studies at Halle to join the army, and he took part in the Rhine campaign of 1794. The rest of his life was devoted mainly to literary pursuits. Like so many of the younger romanticists, Fouque owed his introduction to literature to Schlegel, who published his first book, Dramatische Spicle von Pellegrin in 1804. His next work, Romanzen vom Tal Ronceval (1805), showed more plainly his allegiance to the romantic leaders, and in the Historie vom edlen Ritter Galmy (1806) he versified a 16th-century romance of medieval chivalry. Sigurd der Schlangentoler, ein Heldenspiel (1808), the first modern German dramatization of the Nibelungen saga, attracted attention to him, and influenced considerably subsequent versions of the story, such as Hebbel's Nibelungen and Wagner's Ring des Nibelungen. These early writings indicate the lines which Fouque's subsequent literary activity followed; his interests were divided between medieval chivalry on the one hand and northern mythology on the other. In 1813, the year of the rising against Napoleon, he again fought with the Prussian army, and the new patriotism awakened in the German people left its mark upon his writings. From 1820 onwards the quality of Fouque's work rapidly degenerated, partly owing to the fatal ease with which he wrote, partly to his inability to keep pace with the changes in German taste. He remained the belated romanticist, who, as the reading world turned to new interests, clung the more tenaciously to the paraphernalia of romanticism; but in the cold, sober light of the post-romantic age, these appeared merely flimsy and theatrical. The vitalizing imaginative power of his early years deserted him, and the sobriquet of a " Don Quixote of Romanticism " which his enemies applied to him was not unjustified. Some consolation for the ebbing tide of popular favor was afforded him by the munificence of Frederick William IV of Prussia, who granted him a pension which allowed him to spend his later years in comfort. He died in Berlin on the 23rd of January 1843.
Between 1810 and 1815 Fouque's popularity was at its height; the many romances and novels, plays and epics, which he turned out with extraordinary rapidity, appealed exactly to the mood of the hour. The earliest of these are the best- Undine, which appeared in 1811, being, indeed, one of the most charming of all German Marchen and the only work by which Fouque's memory still lives to-day. A more comprehensive idea of his powers may, however, be obtained from the two romances Der Zauberring (1813) and Die Fahrten Thiodulfs des Islanders (1815).
(Four tales are, it is said, intended by the Author to be ...)
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(This book was originally published prior to 1923, and rep...)
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(Sintram and His Companions The Two Captains Aslauga's Knight)
In 1798 he married Marianne von Schubert. In 1802, their marriage broke up. In 1803, his wife became Caroline von Rohov, better known as Carolina de la Motte Fouquet - writer and hostess of the literary salon. After her death Fouque married a third time.
