Peter Schlemihl

Complete and unabridged, with 56 full-page plates by Caspar David Friedrich, George Cruikshank and Edvard Munch. A young man sells his shadow to a stranger in gray for a purse that never empties, and finds that nobody will tolerate a man without one. Chamisso wrote it in 1813, a Frenchman who had become a German and knew what it was to belong nowhere; he later sailed round the world as a naturalis...