Ranging from macabre fantasies to fairy tales and tales of crime, these stories from the author of The Nutcracker create a rich fictional world. Hoffman paints a complex vision of humanity, where people struggle to establish identities in a hostile, absurd world.[...]
E.T.A. Hoffman's wildly original fictions are some of the most unusual examples of German Romanticism's dark passions, and the stories in "Tales of Hoffman" are selected and translated from the German with an introduction by R.J. Hollingdale in "Penguin Classics". This selection of Hoffmann's finest[...]
A historical and current look at Ethiopia, discussing the land, the government, the culture, the people, and the economy.[...]
E. Hoffmann Price's Exotic Adventures MEGAPACK(R) contains 11 stories and short novels set in a wide range of locales: Europe, Polynesia, Asia, the Middle East, etc. Their settings also range chronologically, from historical adventures to contemporary thrillers and were all published between 1935 an[...]
Edgar Hoffman Price (1898-1988) was a prolific pulp writer who got his start writing for Weird Tales and became a peripheral member of the Lovecraft Circle of weird fiction writers. This collection contains every story he published featuring a Kurdish holy man named Ismeddin. Price labels him as a &[...]
Edgar Hoffmann Price (1898 - 1988) was an American writer of popular fiction (he was a self-titled 'fictioneer') for the pulp magazine marketplace. He is probably most famous for his collaboration with H. P. Lovecraft, "e;Through the Gates of the Silver Key,"e; though he published hundreds o[...]
Edgar Hoffmann Price (1898 - 1988) was an American writer of popular fiction (he was a self-titled 'fictioneer') for the pulp magazine marketplace. He is probably most famous for his collaboration with H. P. Lovecraft, "e;Through the Gates of the Silver Key,"e; though he published hundreds o[...]
Edgar Hoffmann Price (1898 - 1988) was an American writer of popular fiction (he was a self-titled 'fictioneer') for the pulp magazine marketplace. He is probably most famous for his collaboration with H. P. Lovecraft, "e;Through the Gates of the Silver Key,"e; though he published hundreds o[...]
Odna iz samykh luchshikh rozhdestvenskikh skazok v mire - Schelkunchik - vershina tvorchestva vydajuschegosja nemetskogo pisatelja E.T.A.Gofmana. A eto izdanie chudesnoj skazki s prekrasnymi krasochnymi illjustratsijami ne ostavit ravnodushnym samogo trebovatelnogo chitatelja. Illjustrator: Marina P[...]
This is the story that inspired the legendary ballet, presented in a beautiful hardcover edition perfect for giving as a gift. Written in 1816 by the German Romantic E. T. A. Hoffmann for his children, nephews and nieces, The Nutcracker captures better than any other story a child's wonder at Christ[...]
Tomcat Murr is a loveable, self-taught animal who has written his own autobiography. But a printer's error causes his story to be accidentally mixed and spliced with a book about the composer Johannes Kreisler. As the two versions break off and alternate at dramatic moments, two wildly different cha[...]
E. T. A. Hoffman's "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King (1816)" is a fairy tale of a young girl's magical dream, filled with stories with dark undertone. In 1844, Dumas adapted the tale as a children's story, which is now well known as a ballet, choreographed by Marius Petipas with Tchaikovsky's music[...]
In a retelling of the German folktale that takes place on Christmas Eve, a young girl named Marie finds a Nutcracker under the Christmas tree and enters a world of toy soldiers and mousearmies.[...]
Hoffmann is among the greatest and most popular of the German Romantics. This selection, while stressing the variety of his work, puts in the foreground those tales in which the real and the supernatural are brought into contact and conflict. The humour of these tales is a result of the incongruity [...]
"A classic, new and complete. One of the ten best illustrated children's books of the year."
-- "New York Times Book Review"
The tale of "Nutcracker," written by E.T.A. Hoffmann in 1816, has fascinated and inspired artists, composers, and audiences for almost two hundred years. It has retaine[...]
Delightful tale of a little girl 2s love for an enchanted nutcracker in a specially abridged and illustrated edition of the beloved classic.
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Whilst E.T.A. Hoffmann (1776-1822) is most widely known as the author of fantastic tales, he was also prolific as a music critic, productive as a composer, and active as a conductor. This book examines Hoffmann's aesthetic thought within the broader context of the history of ideas of the late-eighte[...]
The German Library Series...Volume 89. Book Very Good in heavy card covers. This volume includes 'The Visit'....'Romulus the Great'.... 'Problems of the Theatre'....'The Judge and His Hangman'....and, for the first time in English, ' A Monster Lecture on Justice and Right.'[...]
Originally published in 1926, this volume contains the complete text of E. T. A. Hoffmann's Der Kampf der Sanger.[...]
This volume presents E. T. A. Hoffmann's novella Meister Martin der Kufner und seine Gesellen in the original German.[...]