''Geschichte vom braven Kasperl und dem schönen Annerl'' (or ''The Story of Just Casper and Fair Annie'' in English) is a

novella A novella is a narrative prose fiction whose length is shorter than most novels, but longer than most short stories. The English word ''novella'' derives from the Italian ''novella'' meaning a short story related to true (or apparently so) facts ...

Clemens Brentano Clemens Wenzeslaus Brentano (also Klemens; pseudonym: Clemens Maria Brentano ; ; 9 September 1778 – 28 July 1842) was a German poet and novelist, and a major figure of German Romanticism. He was the uncle, via his brother Christian, of Franz a ...

, first published in 1817 in the book ''Gaben der Milde'', edited by Friedrich Wilhelm Gubitz

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