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.[...]

En samling nyöversatta berättelser av E T A Hoffmann som fått titeln Don Juan och andra noveller. För nyöversättningen och efterordet om Hoffmanns liv och verk svarar Hans Blomqvist och Erik Ågren. Till denna volym har vi valt ut följande av Hoffmanns många lysande novellmästerverk: Don Ju[...]

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[...]

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.[...]

"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[...]

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.'[...]

This volume presents E. T. A. Hoffmann's novella Meister Martin der Kufner und seine Gesellen in the original German.[...]

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[...]