Description
This is a Boundary Bay Classics edition of Die Elixiere des Teufels, first published in 1815–16 by E. T. A. Hoffmann. Presented as the confession of the monk Medardus, the novel follows his descent into passion, madness, and crime after secretly drinking a mysterious devil's elixir, pursued all the while by an enigmatic doppelgänger whose identity increasingly merges with his own.
Released2026
LanguageGerman
PublisherBoundary Bay Classics
ISBN9781774962718
SellerBoundary Bay
About the author(s)
A central figure of German Romanticism's "Schwarze Romantik," whose 1815–16 novel is considered his major long work and a foundational text of the Gothic double-narrative.
