Product Description

Held captive by a band of unspeakable ruffians, the Marquise of O - is rescued before they can subject her to a fate worse than death. So, how, some months later, can it be that she finds herself pregnant? Believing herself fully innocent, although failing to convince her prudish family of her honour, she places an advertisement asking the perpetrator to identify himself...

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #776665 in Books
• Published on: 2003-06-26
• Original language: German
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 112 pages

From the Publisher
New translation of one of the greatest works of German Literature

From the Back Cover
German writer and poet Heinrich von Kleist was one of the most passionate and brutal of the Romantic writers and one of the first to attack Enlightenment rationalism. His short stories and plays, widely criticised during his lifetime, dealt with the turmoil and conflict of human existence, and the full influence of his achievement can be seen in writers and thinkers such as Kafka, Kierkegaard and Thomas Mann.

Andrew Miller has written a number of novels, including Ingenious Pain, winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Award, and Oxygen, short-listed for the Booker and Whitbread Prizes.

About the Author
Heinrich von Kleist (1777-1811) is the first of the great dramatists of nineteenth-century German literature. Andrew Miller was born in Bristol in 1960. Ingenious Pain, his first novel, won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Grinzane Cavour Prize & the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Ingenious Pain & his second novel Casanova are being adapted for film. His latest novel, Oxygen, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2001.