Ondine (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798888560990)

Traveling through an enchanted forest, the knight-errant Hans falls in love with a water sprite named Ondine, despite his engagement to a woman of the court. Ondine's supernatural relatives are skeptical of the match, so Ondine wagers with Hans's life: should he betray her, he will die. Once married and living in Hans's world of courtly intrigue, trouble quickly threatens the young lovers' happiness. A playful, poetic, highly theatrical, and bittersweet fairy tale of love and what comes after.