A respectable young widow and mother of two children, the Marquise
of O- finds herself inexplicably pregnant after being rescued by a
Russian officer from the attentions of his soldiers during the
storming of her town's citadel. Convinced of her own innocence and
wishing to vindicate her own integrity, the Marquise places an
advert in the newspapers, appealing for the father to come forward
and promising to marry him. But will this be enough to quench her
family's doubts and the derision of the society around her? Will
this help her solve the mystery and urge the perpetrator to
acknowledge paternity of the child? One of the great classics of
German literature, Heinrich von Kleist's sexually charged novella
is as edgy today as it was when it was first published in 1808, and
is accompanied here by two other celebrated stories, 'The
Earthquake in Chile' and 'The Foundling', showcasing the range of
their author's narrative abilities and his taste for the ambiguous
and the paradoxical.
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