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The Story of the Beautiful Lau
Eduard Morike
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Description for The Story of the Beautiful Lau
Hardcover. Num Pages: 48 pages, 20 colour illus. BIC Classification: ACVC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 297 x 247 x 12. Weight in Grams: 586.
Text in English & German. The beautiful Lau, the heroine of Eduard Mörike's story, is only half a water spirit -- her mother was a human woman, and her father was a water nix of royal blood. She has thin webs between her toes, but apart from this she is not externally different to a human being. Because she cannot laugh and can bear only dead children, her husband, the Donaunix, sends her to the Blautopf lake. Before she can be permitted to return, she must laugh five times. The Blautopf is located in Blaubeuren, and is the source of ... Read more
Text in English & German. The beautiful Lau, the heroine of Eduard Mörike's story, is only half a water spirit -- her mother was a human woman, and her father was a water nix of royal blood. She has thin webs between her toes, but apart from this she is not externally different to a human being. Because she cannot laugh and can bear only dead children, her husband, the Donaunix, sends her to the Blautopf lake. Before she can be permitted to return, she must laugh five times. The Blautopf is located in Blaubeuren, and is the source of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Edition Axel Menges
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
48
Place of Publication
Fellbach, Germany
ISBN
9783936681833
SKU
V9783936681833
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99-2
About Eduard Morike
Eduard Morike (1804-1875) is one of the most prominent exponents of Germany's Romantic period. Dorothee Menzel lives near Bremen, Germany. She was so fascinated by Morike's story that she created a large number of illustrations, which appear in this volume.
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