The Marquise of O--

Heinrich von Kleist

first published 1960 Penguin Books, 1985 319 pages

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From 'The Marquis of O--', in which a woman is made pregnant without her knowledge, to the vivid and inexplicable suffering portrayed in 'The Earthquake in Chile', his stories are those of a man swimming against the tide of the German Enlightenment, unable to believe in the idealistic humanism of his day, and who sees human nature as irrational, ambiguous and baffling. It is this loss of faith, together with his vuln...

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Marquise of O - edition · 2004 · Penguin Books, Limited · 9780141911212
The Marquise of O paperback · 2003 · Hesperus Press · 112 pages · 9781843910541
The Marquise of O (Classic, 60s) edition · 1996 · Penguin (Non-Classics) · 64 pages · 9780146001871
The Marquise of O-- edition · 1985 · Penguin Books · 319 pages
The Marquise of O--, and other stories. edition · 1973 · Ungar · 318 pages
Marquise of O paperback · Signet Classics · 9780451501264

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