About this title: Schiller's enigmatic novel fragment, his most popular work when it was first published, appears in print again with a new critical introduction by Professor Jeffrey L. Sammons. One of Schiller's most fascinating prose works, whose historic and philosophical implications have still to be plumbed by literary critics, The Ghost-Seer, with its exotic Venetian setting, remains an interesting, highly readable work. It is in a certain sense the German equivalent of Dickens's Mystery of Edwin Drood. It also illustrates excellently what has been termed the shadow side of the European Enlightenment, a ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Hesperus Press Ltd
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9781843910343ISBN:1843910349
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Edition: NEW ED
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Hesperus Press, UK
ISBN-13:9781843910343ISBN:1843910349
Description: New. Please note that deliveries to addresses in the UK and Europe will be in 4-14 business days. Other countries should refer to Alibris standard times. Friedrich von Schiller's only novel, "The Ghost-seer" is an experimental, deliberately fragmentary work. Thrillingly held together by its dramatic plot and lavish, operatic setting, it is a multi-layered fiction of deceptive simplicity. For a rich young prince and his loyal companion, Venice promises nothing but unfettered pleasure— ... read more
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Edition: NEW ED
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Hesperus Press, UK
ISBN-13:9781843910343ISBN:1843910349
Description: New. Friedrich von Schiller's only novel, "The Ghost-seer" is an experimental, deliberately fragmentary work. Thrillingly held together by its dramatic plot and lavish, operatic setting, it is a multi-layered fiction of deceptive simplicity. For a rich young prince and his loyal companion, Venice promises nothing but unfettered pleasure— until they encounter a mysterious masked Armenian who delivers them a strange prophecy. And when his words prove true, this enigmatic figure develops a ... read more
Edition: NEW ED
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Hesperus Press, UK
ISBN-13:9781843910343ISBN:1843910349
Description: New. PLEASE NOTE that we do not offer expedited shipping. Orders placed with the priority shipping option will automatically be canceled. Friedrich von Schiller's only novel, "The Ghost-seer" is an experimental, deliberately fragmentary work. Thrillingly held together by its dramatic plot and lavish, operatic setting, it is a multi-layered fiction of deceptive simplicity. For a rich young prince and his loyal companion, Venice promises nothing but unfettered pleasure— until they ... read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Camden House, Inc., Columbia, SC, U. S. A.
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9781879751118ISBN:1879751119
Description: Very Good/No Jacket. 1879751119 Used Text is clear and bright throughout. Cover is in very good, clean condition. Contains very minor marginalia in pencil. read more
Edition: 1st
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Camden House
Date Published: 1992-01-08
ISBN-13:9781879751118ISBN:1879751119
Description: Very good. Very minimal damage to the cover (no holes or tears, only minimal scuff marks), in some instances dust jackets are not included, no missing pages, minimal to no highlighting/under. read more
"In this work, The Ghost-seer, by Friedrich von Schiller, exists an incredible force, almost supernatural, that impels the reader into a sinister world of appearances, where the senses only fail and are even complicit, acting to deceive.
The plot surges effortlessly forward to its natural and decisive end. The hero, a young prince, and his group chance upon a mysterious man of vague origin, who somehow holds them in his domination by his omniscient and omnipotence manner. He is like a dark angel with an equal capacity to do good or evil, for reasons which lie outside man's comprehension. The conclusion is as surprising as each and every episode in the whole story.
Schiller's prose is, like his fellow Romatics, alluring and powerful, a work of sheer beauty. The imagery he creates through setting and plot is nothing short of astonishing. It casts a spell which can not be broken until the very end when the mystery is known to all."
"Really wonderful small book -- the story of a man who finds love by rejecting all his attributes. it's too bad Schiller never got around to finishing it."
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