Night Pieces: Selected Novellas

Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann (1776–1822) is a German writer, composer, and artist of the Romantic movement. He gained worldwide fame as the author of narratives where mysticism is combined with reality. Hoffmann’s fantasy grows out of the most ordinary little things and simple objects.

You are offered audio versions of selected works from the cycle “Night Studies” (1817). In this book, the subject of artistic research became the dark sides of life and the incomprehensible movements of the soul. You will hear about childhood fears that drive a person to madness; about a secret curse on a family estate; about gloomy legends and unexpected situations. In Hoffmann’s tales and novellas is contained a strange world that you can discover again.