The Devil's Elixirs
Original title: Die Elixiere des Teufels: Nachgelassene Papiere des Bruders Medardus, eines Kapuziners (German)
Credits: E. T. A. Hoffmann (author)
Summary
The Devil's Elixirs is an 1815 novel by E. T. A. Hoffmann. The basic idea for the story was adopted from Matthew Gregory Lewis's novel The Monk, which is itself mentioned in the text. However, his treatment of the story of a fallen Monk was more deeply probing of the human psyche, and was considered far superior by the German poet and critic, Heinrich Heine. This book contains scenes of violence as its author wrote them.
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