E T A Hoffmann - Böcker

"Då såg han i det klara månskenet tätt framför sig en krets av ohyggliga, spöklika gestalter. Gamla, halvnakna kvinnor med fladdrande hår hade hukat sig ned på marken i en ring, och mitt ibland dem låg liket av en människa, på vilket de åt me...

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Nathanael remains haunted by his childhood fear that the lawyer Coppelius, a strange night-time visitor who used to come to his house to conduct alchemical experiments with his father - the latter dying as a consequence of one of these sessions - ...

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Blodtörstiga munkar, vansinniga dubbelgångare, frestande droger, fördömda själar, besatt kärlek: E. T. A. Hoffmanns Djävulsdrogen ( Die Elixiere des Teufels , 1815) är ett totaläventyr som inte saknar några av skräckgotikens mustiga kryddor. Roman...

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Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. The gift of a handsomely decorated, enigmatic nutcracker sets th...

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Före Sherlock Holmes, före Hercule Poirot, före Miss Marple, fanns Fröken Scuderi. Edgar Allan Poe kallas ofta för detektivberättelsens fader. Men drygt tjugo år före hans "Morden på Rue Morgue" (1841) publicerades den såvitt man vet all...

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This 1816 fairy tale recounts a child's passion for a nutcracker toy that comes to life, battles a seven-headed mouse king, and transports his young mistress to a fantasy world.

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Den tyske författaren och kompositören Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffman (1776-1822) tillhörde den romantiska skolan men hittade en egen stil som utmärktes av en blandning av realism och fantasi. Många konstnärer har inspirerats av Hoffman, som exempe...

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Romantiken är till sin natur gränsöverskridande, den är en ständig rörelse, åtminstone i tanken, den drivs av en längtan till det som hägrar bortom. Den är vild och sträcker sig efter oändligheten och det ouppnåeliga. Den lever i sagan och drömmen...

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"e;Der goldene Topf"e; ist das wohl bekannteste Werk von E. T. A. Hoffmann. Erstmalig veroffenlticht wurde es im Jahre 1814 und liegt nun im eBook-Format vor, verwendbar als Lekture im Deutschunterricht. Der Student Anselmus hat zunchst ei...

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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 b...

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Jag skall för Er räkning skriva en förträfflig bok, en alldeles förträfflig bok - världen kommer att häpna och vara helt tillfreds med den!" försäkrade Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann sin förläggare den 12 maj 1812. Hoffmann var något av ett u...

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In seinem 1816/17 veröffentlichten zweibändigen Zyklus mit dem bezeichnenden Titel »Nachtstücke« versammelt E. T. A. Hoffmann acht Erzählungen, die das Unheimliche und Abgründige im Menschen thematisieren, die Kehrseite der Seele. Das bildkünstler...

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Hoffmann's classic Christmas fairy tale, immortalised by Tchaikovsky's ballet, is brought to life by the gorgeous contemporary artwork of Finnish illustrator, Sanna Annuka. On Christmas Eve, Fritz and Marie excitedly await the arrival of Godfather...

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On Christmas Eve, Marie finds a Nutcracker doll among the family's gifts and is charged by her parents to take special care of it. Under the cover of darkness, the Nutcracker comes to life, along with an evil Mouse King with seven heads, introduci...

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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 Peng...

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The story begins with a series of letters between Nathanael, his fiancee Clara, and her brother Lothar. Nathanael describes a childhood fear of a creature called The Sandman who was said to come at night and steal the eyes of children, which inter...

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'The Sandman' (1844) was written by the German romantic author E. T. A. Hoffmann, most famous for his novella 'The Nutcracker and the Mouse King" (1816) which inspired Tchaikovsky"s 'The Nutcracker". A tale of madness, deceit and murder. A young m...

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In this glorious new edition, acclaimed children's book author and editor Janet Schulman returns to the source, E.T.A. Hoffman's "The Nutcracker and the King of Mice." Renee Graef adds her own enchantment with stunning jewel-like paintin...

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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 al...

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This selection of Hoffmann's finest short stories vividly demonstrates his intense imagination and preoccupation with the supernatural, placing him at the forefront of both surrealism and the modern horror genre. Suspense dominates tales such as M...

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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 al...

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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 th...

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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 ...

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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 hostil...

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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 hostil...

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"e;Strange man, how can you have eyes for sale? Eyes? Eyes?"e; 'The disturbing tale of a young man's obsession with the Sandman, stealer of eyes, which has inspired writers from Sigmund Freud to Neil Gaiman.One of 46 new books in the bests...

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E. T. A. Hoffmann's classic tales of Gothic horror and fantasy are presented in a new translation accompanying the beguiling drawings of Natalie Frank E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776-1822) was one of the greatest German Romantic authors of fantasy and a p...

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"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 au...

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Immortalized by Tchaikovsky's ballet, Hoffmann's classic tale captures a child's wonder at Christmas better than any other story. Now it's brought to life by the gorgeous contemporary artwork of Finnish illustrator Annukka. Full color.

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