{"product_id":"tales-and-stories","title":"Erzählungen und Geschichten","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat if you could escape death, trade your body, or wake in a world that has forgotten you?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Mary Shelley's Tales and Stories, strange gifts bring loneliness as well as wonder. In The Mortal Immortal, Winzy drinks an alchemist's potion against death. In Transformation, Guido, a proud young nobleman in Genoa, trades bodies with a stranger and must face who he is without his familiar shape and rank.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRoger Dodsworth, the Reanimated Englishman brings a man from the seventeenth century into a changed world. Elsewhere, the ancient Roman Valerius wakes to the ruins of the city he knows. Alongside these uncanny encounters sit quieter stories of love, family duty and loss, many set in Italy. Not every tragedy needs magic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eInside this book\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eA potion against death\u003c\/strong\u003e – Follow Winzy into a tale where the promise of long life meets love and loneliness.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eA stranger's borrowed body\u003c\/strong\u003e – Enter Guido's Genoa, where a change of body puts pride and identity at stake.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe past returns\u003c\/strong\u003e – Meet figures who wake in later ages, surrounded by change and the loss of familiar worlds.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eItaly beyond the uncanny\u003c\/strong\u003e – Find quieter tragedies rooted in love, family duty and the pain of loss.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eShelley beyond Frankenstein\u003c\/strong\u003e – Discover short fiction that moves between gothic strangeness, romantic fantasy and plain human sorrow.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003ePerfect for readers who love Frankenstein and want more of Shelley's imagination, or enjoy short gothic fiction with real feeling and room for quieter sorrow.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOpen the first page now and step into Shelley's world of strange bargains and human longing.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Library of Alexandria Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59534609547612,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1027\/9442\/8764\/files\/02991_en_ebook-front_c22.jpg?v=1792174953","url":"https:\/\/libraryofalexandria.com\/de\/products\/erzaehlungen-und-geschichten","provider":"The Library of Alexandria","version":"1.0","type":"link"}