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Author | : Barbara Burns |
Publisher | : MHRA |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2016-04-19 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1781880956 |
Download Wilhelm Meinhold, 'The Amber Witch'. Translated by Lady Duff Gordon Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Wilhelm Meinhold's Gothic romance Maria Schweidler: Die Bernsteinhexe (1844) was a seminal German text in the literary landscape of Victorian England. The 1846 English translation by Lady Duff Gordon, entitled The Amber Witch, enjoyed widespread popular success, and Meinhold's suspenseful tale of a guileless young woman, unjustly accused of witchcraft, was hailed as the leading German novel of its day. Written in the style of a seventeenth-century chronicle, the story appealed to a readership which identified in Meinhold's work echoes of Daniel Defoe, Oliver Goldsmith and Walter Scott. This volume makes available for the first time in a critical edition a literary translation which transformed the German text into a cult classic in English, and suggests ways in which this work resonated with trends in Victorian culture. Duff Gordon's accomplished rendering of what was perceived as an untranslatable text made Meinhold's novel accessible to new generations of readers. Affording an insight into the devastation of the Thirty Years' War and the superstition and miscarriages of justice which marked the peak of the witch-hunting period in Early Modern Europe, this translation should generate continuing momentum and impact for Meinhold's original German novel.
Author | : Wilhelm Meinhold |
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Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 1844 |
Genre | : Trials (Witchcraft) |
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Author | : Wilhelm Meinhold |
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Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 1861 |
Genre | : Witchcraft |
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Author | : Wilhelm Meinhold |
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Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1895 |
Genre | : Occult fiction |
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Release | : 1861 |
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Download The amber witch [re-told from the Germ. of J.W. Meinhold.]. Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Johann Wilhelm Meinhold |
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Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 1844 |
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Download The Amber Witch: the Most Interesting Trial for Witchcraft Ever Known. Edited from a Defective Manuscript of Her Father, Abraham Schweidler. Translated from the German Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Wilhelm Meinhold |
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Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 1903 |
Genre | : Pomerania (Poland and Germany) |
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Author | : Wilhelm Meinhold |
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Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1866 |
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Author | : Wilhelm Meinhold |
Publisher | : Read Books Ltd |
Total Pages | : 165 |
Release | : 2021-06-24 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1528792033 |
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“Mary Schweidler, the Amber Witch” is an 1838 novel by Wilhelm Meinhold, originally published in German and translated into English by Lady Duff-Gordon. Initially published as a hoax claiming to be a 17th-century account of witchcraft, Meinhold eventually confessed to the deceit but encountered significant trouble when trying to prove that he actually wrote the book. Set during the Thirty Years War, the plot revolves around the story of a pastor, whose only daughter, Maria, has been accused of practicing witchcraft by a rejected suitor. What follows is a tale of heart-break, jealousy and innocence. Read & Co. Classics is proudly republishing this vintage novel now in a brand new edition complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author.
Author | : Mary Schweidler |
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Release | : 2005 |
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