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Tales of E. T. A. Hoffmann

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.

"The editors have made an excellent selection, and the result is a book of great distinction."—Denis Donoghue, New York Review of Books

"The translators have proved fully equal to all the challenges of Hoffmann’s romantic irony and his richly allusive prose, giving us an accurate and idiomatic rendering that also retains much of the original flavor."—Harry Zohn, Saturday Review

320 pages | 10 illustrations | 5.80 x 8.90 | © 1972

Fiction

Literature and Literary Criticism: Germanic Languages

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Introduction
Ritter Gluck
The Golden Pot
The Sandman
Councillor Krespel
The Mines of Falun
Mademoiselle de Scudéri
The Doubles

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