Excerpt from Peter Schlemihl: From the German of Lamotte FouqueIn 1813 I was living in the coun try, near Berlin, and having been separated by circumstances from Schlemihl for a long time, I had completely lost sight of him, when one foggy autumn morning, having slept late, I learned upon awakening that a man with a long beard, dressed in a black coat, old and shabby, and wearing large slippers over his shoes, had inquired for me, and left a package for my address. This package contained the auto graph manuscript of the Marvellous History of Peter Schlemihl.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.