Arriving at a rich man’s garden party, young Peter Schlemihl meets a quiet man in grey who draws anything from his pocket and offers to buy Peter’s shadow for an inexhaustible purse. Peter agrees, and finds himself rich but shunned by everyone, his love affair ruined, while the grey stranger returns with a still darker bargain.
A German Romantic fable first published in 1814, with an introduction by Henry Morley. Download the free EPUB.