Excerpt from Peter Schlemihl: From the German of Lamotte Fouque

Adelung said to me one day at Petersburgh - "Have you read Peter Schlemihl?" - "No." - "If you read it, you will translate it." - I have translated it.

The story is a moral one. I leave its development to my readers. It would be little flattering to them to suspect they required my assistance, in order to discover the obvious lessons it conveys.

I have not scrupled to introduce a few verbal alterations, but the deviations from the original are very trifling.

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