Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann is rightly called a “universal personality in art.” He was not only an outstanding German writer, but also the author of the first German romantic opera, a conductor, a music critic, a theater decorator, a musician, a draftsman/graphic artist, and a brilliant lawyer. Hoffmann’s literary legacy is as diverse as his talents: novels, novellas, fairy tales, librettos, essays, and critical articles. His fame came from the cycle of Berlin stories, in which sharp sketches of life in a big city are strangely intertwined with fantasy and grotesque.
Contents:
The Golden Pot: a fairy tale from new times
The Sandman. From the cycle of novellas “Night Études”
Ma(i)orate. From the cycle of novellas “Night Études”
Clever Hans—also known as Zinnober
Mademoiselle de Scudéry. A story from the times of Louis XIV
Master Martin the cooper and his apprentice
From the “Kreisleriana”