The Marquise of O- and other stories
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The Marquise of O- and other stories
（Penguin classics）
Penguin, 1978
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Contents of Works
- The Earthquake in Chile
- The Marquise of O-
- Michael Kohlhaas
- The Beggarwoman of Locarno
- St. Cecilia or the power of music
- The Betrothal in Santo Domingo
- The Foundling
- The Duel
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Description
In The Marquise of O-, a virtuous widow finds herself unaccountably pregnant. And although the baffled Marquise has no idea when this happened, she must prove her innocence to her doubting family and discover whether the perpetrator is an assailant or lover. Michael Kohlhaas depicts an honourable man who feels compelled to violate the law in his search for justice, while other tales explore the singular realm of the uncanny, such as The Beggarwoman of Locarno, in which an old woman's ghost drives a heartless nobleman to madness, and St Cecilia, which portrays four brothers possessed by an uncontrollable religious mania. The stories collected in this volume reflect the preoccupations of Heinrich von Kleist (1777-1811) with the deceptiveness of human nature and the unpredictability of the physical world.
Table of Contents
- "The Earthquake in Chile"
- "The Marquise of O--"
- "Michael Kohlhaas"
- "The Beggarwoman of Locarno"
- "St Cecilia or The Power of Music"
- "The Betrothal in Santo Domingo"
- "The Foundling"
- "The Duel"
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