Erdgeist (Earth-Spirit): A Tragedy in Four Acts by Frank Wedekind
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"Erdgeist (Earth-Spirit): A Tragedy in Four Acts" by Frank Wedekind is a play written in 1895. It follows Lulu, a enigmatic woman whose mysterious past and powerful allure leave destruction in her wake. As she moves from lover to lover—from a physician to a painter to a powerful newspaper publisher—each man projects his own desires onto her while her true identity remains hidden. When passion turns deadly, Lulu's fate spirals toward imprisonment
and an ominous future detailed in the sequel, "Pandora's Box." (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Wedekind, Frank, 1864-1918 |
|---|---|
| Translator | Eliot, Samuel A. (Samuel Atkins), 1893-1984 |
| Title | Erdgeist (Earth-Spirit): A Tragedy in Four Acts |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Spirit_(play) |
| Note | First published in: The Glebe 1914/10 (Vol. 2, No. 3). |
| Credits |
Produced by Michael Roe, Alexander Bauer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 87.9 (6th grade). Easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PT: Language and Literatures: Germanic, Scandinavian, and Icelandic literatures |
| Subject | Tragedies (Drama) |
| Subject | German drama -- Translations into English |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 29682 |
| Release Date | Aug 13, 2009 |
| Last Update | Jan 5, 2021 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 540 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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