The man who sees ghosts : from the memoirs of the Count Von O*** / Friedrich von Schiller ; translated from the German by David Bryer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schiller, Friedrich, 1759-1805.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Bryer, David.

Standardized Title:

Geisterseher. English

Language:

English

German

Genre:

Occult fiction.

Novels.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

156 pages : portrait ; 17 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Pushkin Press, 2003.

Summary:

A young German prince of Protestant faith becomes embroiled in a diabolical net of political intrigue and religous conspiracy. During his stay with the prince in Venice, the Count von O**** witnesses how the fragile and impressionable character of his young companion falls victim to the insidious machinations of his enemies whose aim it is to get him to convert to Catholicisim and then to overthrow the Protestant rulers of his princedom. His faith is challenged by supernatural apparitions and his moral steadfastness is subverted by the lure of gambling and tragic love affairs. Fate takes its course and steers mercilessly towards a calamitous climax of violence and death. Schiller's enigmatic novel fragment was written between 1786 and 1789. It proved to be one of his most popular works, mainly because of the masterly way it treated the then topical theme of experiments with the supernatural.

Notes:

Translated from the German.

ISBN:

190128512X

OCLC:

51991754