Oberon
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A good fit for
- Readers with German reading ability interested in German literary history
- Students of German literature who need an electronic text of the original
- Researchers studying eighteenth-century German narrative literature
- Readers who want a free electronic edition for textual searching and comparative reading
Not a good fit for
- Readers without German reading ability who want a Chinese translation
- Advanced researchers who need detailed annotations, introductions, or scholarly editions
- Readers who prefer fast-paced modern novels and have little patience for eighteenth-century literary language
Reading tips
- First learn about Wieland's place in German literary history and the eighteenth-century literary background, then read the text.
- Read alongside a history of German literature or a related introduction to make up for the lack of annotations in the electronic edition.
- While reading, pay attention to narrative structure and character arrangement, and use the electronic search function to organize thematic threads.
- For coursework, read the whole text first and then excerpt in sections, rather than quoting out of context.
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Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.
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About the author
Christoph Martin Wieland (1733–1813) was a German writer, represented in this catalogue by four works. Public information about him is limited, but his surviving works give a sense of his literary range. The novel Geschichte des Agathon, transmitted in two parts, follows its hero's moral and intellectual development and stands as an early and important attempt at the German Bildungsroman and psychological novel. Oberon, a chivalric romance blending narrative, fantasy and allegory, later supplied the source for Weber's opera of the same name. Geschichte des Prinzen Biribinker is a playful, fantastical tale. Wieland's graceful, elegant style combines Enlightenment reason with light Rococo imagination, giving him a place in the transition of German literature from the Enlightenment toward Classicism.
