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Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschichte

出版	Rikola-Verlag, 1922
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=8fMOAAAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋Peter Schlemihl--the name is a conscious use of the Yiddish word meaning "God's fool"--Is a poor man, seeking to rise in society, who meets a magical figure at a rich man's manor. The magician offers to buy his shadow in exchange for a purse that offers untold riches. Schlemihl accepts and becomes a figure of great wealth, only to find that the lack of his shadow undermines any possibility of living normally, or of finding love. In the end, he rejects the magician's offer to return his shadow in exchange for his soul, acquires a pair of seven-league boots and, by leaping around the world observing and recording, attempts to make amends for his foolishness by becoming a dedicated naturalist