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 t scrupled to introduce a few verbal alterations; but the deviations from the original are very trifling. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art techlogy 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.