Undine

by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué

Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué's exquisite fairy-tale romance of a water spirit who wins a human soul through love.

At a glance A haunting German Romantic classic of enchantment, longing, and the sorrow that comes… A knight rides into an enchanted forest and finds, in a fisherman's cottage by a haunted… So begins one of the loveliest of all German fairy tales. What it's about Undine is a water spirit, one of the elemental beings who lack a human…

Undine is a water spirit, one of the elemental beings who lack a human soul, and who can gain one only through the love of a mortal.