Pietari Schlemihl'in eriskummalliset elämänvaiheet by Adelbert von Chamisso
"Pietari Schlemihl'in eriskummalliset elämänvaiheet" by Adelbert von Chamisso is a novella written in 1814. A man sells his shadow to the Devil for a bottomless wallet, only to discover that society shuns those without shadows. Rejected by his beloved and consumed by guilt, he must choose between reclaiming his shadow by surrendering his soul or finding another path. His journey leads him through despair, scientific exploration with seven-league boots, and ultimately toward
an unexpected reconciliation with himself and the natural world. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
Read or download for free
| Reading Options | Url | Size | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Read now! | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/36834.html.images | 159 kB | |||
| EPUB3 (E-readers incl. Send-to-Kindle) | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/36834.epub3.images | 144 kB | |||
| EPUB (older E-readers) | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/36834.epub.images | 144 kB | |||
| EPUB (no images, older E-readers) | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/36834.epub.noimages | 122 kB | |||
| Kindle | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/36834.kf8.images | 375 kB | |||
| older Kindles | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/36834.kindle.images | 360 kB | |||
| Plain Text UTF-8 | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/36834.txt.utf-8 | 146 kB | |||
| Download HTML (zip) | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/36834/pg36834-h.zip | 150 kB | |||
| There may be more files related to this item. | |||||
Similar Books
About this eBook
| Author | Chamisso, Adelbert von, 1781-1838 |
|---|---|
| Title | Pietari Schlemihl'in eriskummalliset elämänvaiheet |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Schlemihl |
| Credits | Produced by Tapio Riikonen |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 46.1 (College-level). Difficult to read. |
| Language | Finnish |
| LoC Class | PT: Language and Literatures: Germanic, Scandinavian, and Icelandic literatures |
| Subject | Fables |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 36834 |
| Release Date | Jul 24, 2011 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 296 downloads in the last 30 days. |
| Project Gutenberg eBooks are always free! | |