Category: Short Stories

Tales From the "Phantasus," etc. of Ludwig Tieck

I. PREFACE. II. THE RECONCILIATION. III. THE FRIENDS. IV. THE ELVES. V. THE WHITE EGBERT. VI. THE FAITHFUL ECKART. VII. THE TANNENHÄUSER. VIII. THE RUNENBERG. IX. THE MYSTERIOUS CUP. X. THE LOVE-CHARM. XI. THE BROTHERS.

Chapters

7. Part 7

"When I had got to the other side of the wood, the sun was by this time high in the air, and I saw a dark heavy mass beyond me, covered with a thick mist. Presently I had to scr...

2. Part 2

"The Love-charm" is a work of a different nature; it is one of the most remarkable of all Tieck's writings, and, as far as we know, stands alone among the productions of modern...

16. Part 16

The bridegroom came up to them and asked for Roderick. The party had already missed him for some time, and no one could guess what had become of him; they now dispersed in searc...

14. Part 14

The stranger applauded his saying, and the mother returned with the goblet. They filled it full of wine, and from the head of the table began to pass it round, each proposing th...

3. Part 3

"My most urgent expostulations were in vain, and I was at last obliged to yield to their united entreaties. My brother's infant son was consigned to the protection of a convent....

13. Part 13

All these scenes of his new existence again passed through his remembrance. He raised his eyes; that noble form was even then gliding across the square--she lightened upon him f...

15. Part 15

The other, who stayed behind, was a young man. He took the old woman's hand, and said, "Is it possible, Alexia, that these rites and forms and strange old words, which I never c...

12. Part 12

"By this flower," replied the old gardener; "all my life I have been wishing to be able once to find it, but never had the fortune; for it is very rare, and grows only on the mo...

11. Part 11

Whilst he thus sang, the sun had sunk deeper, and broad shadows fell across the narrow valley. A cooling twilight stole over the earth; while only the tops of the trees and the...

8. Part 8

It struck him Walters had not taken leave of him with, as much heartiness as he naturally would have done after being admitted into such a piece of confidence. When once a man h...

4. Part 4

"Oh, how unspeakably happy I am!" exclaimed Lewis; "all my dearest dreams have met with their fulfillment, all my most daring wishes are gratified now: yes, I am, I live among t...

10. Part 10

"There goes an ancient tradition, that several hundred years ago there lived a knight known by the name of the Faithful Eckart. It is farther believed that there appeared a myst...

5. Part 5

"Now," said Zerina to the astonished child, "prepare yourself for something still greater." She then placed two pine-cones in the ground, and stamped on them violently with her...

9. Part 9

"There is the mystery; it is a secret," whispered the old man, "which those who know dare not tell, and none know but those who are in the power of our great adversary; and inde...

6. Part 6

Andrew returned on the following morning, seemingly anxious to spend as much time as possible in the society of his first playfellow, Maria. The news of her return spread rapidl...

1. Part 1

I. PREFACE. II. THE RECONCILIATION. III. THE FRIENDS. IV. THE ELVES. V. THE WHITE EGBERT. VI. THE FAITHFUL ECKART. VII. THE TANNENHÄUSER. VIII. THE RUNENBERG. IX. THE MYSTERIOUS...

17. Part 17

_Omar._ Doubt of it no longer, or you will enrage me; I can keep cool a long time, and bear a good deal, but when I am irritated in such a deliberate way----