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[...]
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.[...]
Characterised by Hoffmann's remarkable ingenuity and attention to detail, it has been the inspiration for a host of thriller and crime writers. Parisian goldsmith Monsieur Cardillac is a genius at his craft. Greatly admired throughout Paris, he is renowned for his works of exquisite and matchless be[...]
The charismatic monk Medardus becomes implicated in a deadly mystery against his will. As he travels towards Rome he wrestles with the enigma of his own identity while pursued by his murderous doppelganger. The monk's only hope for salvation lies with the beautiful Aurelie; but in order to escape th[...]
E. T. A. Hoffmann war ein Schriftsteller, Komponist, Musikkritiker, Karikaturist, Maler und Zeichner. Sein literarisches Schaffen ist der Hochromantik zuzuordnen, aber er orientierte sich auch am trivialen Schauerroman und Marchen. Jetzt genieen Sie die kompletten Werke von Hoffmann auf Ihrem E-Read[...]
E.T.A. Hoffmann war Beamter des preußischen Staates, Kapellmeister in Bamberg und Dresden, ehe er in Berlin zum erfolgreichen Schriftsteller und einflußreichen Juristen avancierte. Rüdiger Safranski beschränkt sich in seiner Biographie nicht auf Leben und Werk E.T.A. Hoffmanns, sondern er erzäh[...]