Das Fräulein von Scuderi

Mademoiselle de Scuderi. A Tale from the Times of Louis XIV (German: Das Fräulein von Scuderi. Erzählung aus dem Zeitalter Ludwig des Vierzehnten) is a 1819 novella by E. T. A. Hoffmann which was first published in the Yearbook for 1820. Dedicated to Love and Friendship (German: Taschenbuch für das Jahr 1820. Der Liebe und Freundschaft gewidmet). It was later included in the third volume of Hoffmann's collection The Serapion Brethren. The 1819 edition was an immediate commercial and critical success and led to Hoffmann's becoming a popular and well-paid author. Mademoiselle de Scuderi is regarded as one of Hoffmann's best, not only because of its exciting, suspenseful plot and interesting descriptions of life, places, and people in late 17th-century Paris but also because of the many different levels of interpretation that it allows.