The Devil's Elixir - Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann

E.T.A. Hoffmann\'s \'The Devil\'s Elixir\' is a gothic, horror-fantasy novel inspired by Matthew Gregory Lewis\'s novel \'The Monk\'. Medardus is the son of a sinner and is raised in a monastery to atone for his father\'s past. When Medardus succumbs to temptation, he is dragged into a deadly mystery that sees him travel to Rome, pursued by his murderous lookalike. At the Vatican in Rome, the monk\'s only hope for salvation is the beautiful Aurelie but in order to finally discover the truth of the... Zobrazit více