Two perfect stories, two masterpieces of one of the most significant authors of German Romanticism, steeped in mystery and poetry which adjoins the magical and sinister.

Ludwig Tieck (1773-1853), who Hebel called the "King of the romantic" and was greatly admired by Hermann Hesse wrote numerous short stories, novels and plays, and the whole of his work remains one of the most representative of his generation. Like other romantics, Tieck was deeply interested in the tradition of folk tales, and this popular material inspired him to develop some of his works. This fairytale air is evident in the two accounts now presented to the reader: Blond Eckbert and The Runenberg, Wilhelm Dilthey stories called "perfect." Here, then, in this volume two stories which are so many masterpieces, in which easily meets the requirement of Tieck: "join the beautiful with the terrifying, the strange with the naive".