Die Nymphe des Brunnens by Johann Karl August Musäus
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"Die Nymphe des Brunnens" by Johann Karl August Musäus is a fairy tale published in 1783. When a water nymph foretells a knight's wife will die leaving behind a third daughter, she gifts the child Mathilde a magical musk apple. After enemies destroy her home, Mathilde becomes a servant and falls in love with Count Conrad. Using the apple's magic, she wins his heart, but his vengeful mother accuses her of witchcraft
and condemns her to death. Only the nymph's intervention can save her. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Musäus, Johann Karl August, 1735-1787 |
|---|---|
| Editor | Fraungruber, Hans, 1863-1933 |
| Illustrator | Taschner, Ignatius, 1871-1913 |
| Title | Die Nymphe des Brunnens |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Nymphe_des_Brunnens |
| Credits |
Produced by Alexander Bauer, Jana Srna, Irma Spehar, Markus Brenner and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 69.2 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. |
| Language | German |
| LoC Class | PT: Language and Literatures: Germanic, Scandinavian, and Icelandic literatures |
| Subject | Folklore -- Germany |
| Subject | Fairy tales -- Germany |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 25530 |
| Release Date | May 19, 2008 |
| Last Update | Jan 3, 2021 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 470 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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