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Synopsis
Adelbert von Chamisso (1781 –1838) was a German poet and botanist. In 1796 his family was forced to leave France. They settled in Berlin where Chamisso became a page-in-waiting to the queen. He later joined the Prussian infantry. Peter Schlemihl is the story of a man who sells his shadow to the Devil for an always full wallet. He then finds out that a man without a shadow is shunned by society. The woman he loves rejects him, and he spends the rest of his life wandering the world in scientific exploration. The Yiddish word Schlemiel means a hopelessly incompetent person, a bungler. The name is a synonym for one who makes a desperate or silly bargain
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- PublisherBook Jungle
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 1438502338
- ISBN 13 9781438502335
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages72
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Peter Schlemihl
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Standard Pubns Inc, Champaign, Illinois, U.S.A., 2008
ISBN 10: 1438502338
ISBN 13: 9781438502335
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