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Master Flea: A Fairy-Tale in Seven Adventures of Two Friends is a humorous fairytale fantasy novel by E. T. A. Hoffmann, first published in 1822. Set in the city of Frankfurt am Main, the novel follows the story of Peregrinus Tyss, a student who becomes entangled in the conflict between supernatural characters in bourgeois form over Dörtje Elverdink, who is, in reality, Princess Gamaheh of Famagusta.

The novel weaves together elements of the supernatural, comedy, and romance, making it a truly unique and captivating read. The central character, Peregrinus Tyss, gains an epic advantage of tiny proportions when he encounters a mysterious talking flea named Master Flea. This flea grants him the ability to shrink to minuscule size, leading to a series of whimsical and fantastical adventures.

Shortly before its publication, Master Flea was the target of a major censorship case. Two scenes in the novel appeared to mock the court system and its manner of prosecuting nationalists in the wake of the Carlsbad Decrees. As a result, the first edition of the novel was published with significant portions of the fourth and fifth adventures missing. These missing sections were later made public by the literary scholar Georg Ellinger in 1906, and they appeared in a new version of the novel published in 1908. However, because Hoffmann had requested and agreed to the cuts, his final intentions for the novel remain unclear, and it should be regarded as a fragment.



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