The Inn at the Spessart (from Tales)
by Wilhelm Hauff
The Inn at the Spessart was one of three collections of märchen written by nineteenth century poet and Romantic Wilhelm Hauff. The version I read was from Tales of Wilhelm Hauff, as translated by S. Mendel in 1886. This is one of the earliest complete collections of Hauff’s märchen in English, and it’s charming.
All of the individual stories are wonderful, and the fairy-tale-like framing story is charming, too. Includes one of Hauff’s most famous tales, “The Cold Heart” (Das Kalte Herz).