Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more. Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann 24 January 1776 Knigsberg, Kingdom of Prussia, Holy Roman Empire: Died: 25 June 1822 (aged 46) Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia, German Confederation: Pen name: E.
This new translation includes The Golden Pot, The Sandman, Princess Brambilla, Master Flea, and My Cousin's Corner Window.Ībout the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. The novella The Golden Pot by ETA Hoffman begins when the dreamy and clumsy student Anselmus knocks over the basket of an old Apple-woman on Ascension Day. This selection, while stressing the variety of his work, focuses on those stories in which the real and the supernatural are brought into contact and conflict. Nathanael recalls his childhood terror of the legendary Sandman, who was said to steal the eyes of children who would not go to bed and feed them to his own children who lived in the moon. The Golden Pot and Other Tales: A New Translation by Ritchie Robertson (Oxford Worlds Classics) by Hoffmann, E. Hoffmann, among the greatest and most popular of the German Romantics, is renowned for his humorous and sometimes horrifying tales of supernatural beings.
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