Wonder

Undine

by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué

A water spirit marries a mortal knight in hopes of gaining a soul through love, and discovers that human loyalty is rather less permanent than the ocean she came from. Fouqué wrote one of the most influential fairy tales of Romantic German literature, quietly shaping nearly every water-spirit story that followed it. It is sadder than its fairy-tale shape lets on at first.

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Reading time

About 2 hr 15 min

Where to find it

On the Wonder shelves

Edition

Project Gutenberg, eBook #2825. In the public domain in the United States.