Undine

According to Wikipedia: "Friedrich Heinrich Karl de la Motte, Baron Fouqué (February 12, 1777 - January 23, 1843) was a German writer of the romantic movement... Between 1810 and 1815, Fouqué's popularity was at its height; the many romances and novels, plays and epics, which he turned out with extraordinary rapidity, appealed exactly to the mood of the hour. Undine appeared around 1811, German Märchen the only work by which Fouqué's memory still lives today. A more comprehensive idea of his powers may, however, be obtained from the two romances Der Zauberring (1813) and Die Fahrten Thiodolfs des Isländers (1815)."