At the back of this little tongue of land there lay a fearsome forest right perilous to traverse from the book ' UNDINE ' BY DE LA MOTTE POUQUE; ADAPTEDFrom German by W L COURTNEY ILLUSTRATED BY ARTHUR RACKHAM Published in London and New York in 1909 Undine is a fairytale novella (Erzählung) by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué in which Undine, a water spirit, marries a knight named Huldebrand in order to gain a soul. Published in 1811, it is an early German romance, which has been translated into English and other languages.

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