Project Gutenberg 2025-06-23 Public domain in the USA. 240 Hoffmann, E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus) 1776 1822 Hoffmann, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann, Ernst Theodor Amadeus Stern, Ernst 1876 1954 Stern, Ernest Stern, Ernst Julian Die Elixiere des Teufels : $b Nachgelassene Papiere des Bruders Medardus, eines Kapuziners $aBerlin :$bBuchverlag fürs Deutsche Haus, $c1908. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Devil%27s_Elixirs https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Elixiere_des_Teufels Markus Brenner and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net "Die Elixiere des Teufels : Nachgelassene Papiere des Bruders Medardus, eines…." by E. T. A. Hoffmann is a novel written in the early 19th century. It is a Gothic, confessional tale framed as the posthumous papers of a Capuchin monk, charting spiritual temptation, pride, visions, and the lure of a diabolical elixir. The story centers on Brother Medardus, whose religious calling collides with unsettling apparitions and a mysterious bottle said to come from the Devil. The opening of the novel sets an editorial frame: an editor in a monastery garden introduces the “papers” of Brother Medardus and invites the reader into his extraordinary life. Medardus then narrates his childhood near the holy shrine of Heilige Linde, early mystical impressions, and the protection of a noble abbess who supports his education; he eventually gravitates to a Capuchin house under the kindly Prior Leonardus. He struggles briefly with sensual temptation, chooses the cloister, becomes a famed preacher, and grows dangerously proud until a ghastly stranger in a violet mantle shatters him mid-sermon. Put in charge of the reliquaries, he learns of a flask from St. Anthony’s legend—the Devil’s “elixir”; a visiting count and tutor uncork it as fine wine, and later, tormented and desperate, Medardus secretly drinks from the bottle at night and feels a sudden, intoxicating resurgence of strength. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 20070913114138hoffmann 1908 DE Reading ease score: 71.7 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. de Gothic fiction Monks -- Fiction Devil -- Fiction Fantasy fiction, German PT Text Category: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Category: Novels Category: Classics of Literature Category: German Literature 772908 2025-07-30T07:50:16.413405 text/html 747277 2025-06-23T11:27:06 text/html 2681274 2025-07-30T07:50:24.761379 application/epub+zip 2688296 2025-07-30T07:50:18.390394 application/epub+zip 497333 2025-07-30T07:50:17.400381 application/epub+zip 3109150 2025-07-30T07:50:30.363341 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 3066499 2025-07-30T07:50:23.909377 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 733146 2025-07-30T07:50:15.642437 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 713238 2025-06-23T11:27:06 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 15661 2025-07-30T07:50:30.546327 application/rdf+xml 21612 2025-07-30T07:50:17.651380 image/jpeg 3568 2025-07-30T07:50:17.507401 image/jpeg 6141023 2025-07-30T07:50:16.576427 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog de.wikipedia en.wikipedia en.wikipedia