by Heinrich von Kleist · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783150080023
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«Die Marquise von O. / Das Erdbeben in Chili» is a volume of short stories by Heinrich von Kleist, published by Reclam in paperback, in German.
The volume brings together two short stories by Heinrich von Kleist. In «Die Marquise von O.», a pregnant widow in strange circumstances defies honour and family conventions, with a plot that doles out its revelations. «Das Erdbeben in Chili» interweaves the fate of the lovers Jerónimo and Josepha with an earthquake that shakes Chile.
It belongs to the Reclams Universal-Bibliothek collection (No. 8002) and includes an appendix with word explanations and an epilogue by Christian Wagenknecht.
For students of German and school reading (Abitur, Matura) who want to read 19th-century German classics in the original.
Bernd Heinrich Wilhelm von Kleist was a German poet, dramatist, novelist, short story writer and journalist. His best known works are the theatre plays The Prince of Homburg, Das Käthchen von Heilbronn, The Broken Jug, Amphitryon and Penthesilea, and the novellas Michael Kohlhaas and The Marquise of O. Kleist ended his life in a suicide pact by shooting himself together with a close female friend who was terminally ill.
