Böcker av E T A Hoffmann

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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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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Välkommen att avsmaka häxgrytan: En anrättning av lika delar mystik, förlorad oskuld och dödliga insikter. Allt insamlat från en likkistförsäljares bod, på en kyrkogård där liken talar och hos en vetenskapsman som stjäler människoögon. Välkryddat ...

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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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E. T. A. Hoffmann: Der Artushof / Die Bergwerke zu Falun. Zwei ErzählungenDer Artushof: Erstdruck in: Urania. Taschenbuch für Damen auf das Jahr 1817Die Bergwerke zu Falun: Erstdruck in: Die Serapionsbrüder, Erster Band, Februar 181...

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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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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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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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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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Jägardockan och harpspelaren stirrade med tomma ögon och fäktade runt med sina små händer. En hemsk, knarrande stämma: "Dumma stackare, enfaldiga varelser! Föraktade oss -- nu kan ni sitta där utan leksaker!" Förskräckta rusade barnen dä...

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"Strange man, how can you have eyes for sale? Eyes? Eyes?" ' 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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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 tha...

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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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Studenten Anselmus får en tjänst hos arkivarius Lindhorst, där han får skriva av gamla mystiska texter. Anselmus drabbas hela tiden av fantasier eller drömmar där han träffar den sköna Serpentina. Senare ska det visa sig att arkivarius Lindhorst ä...

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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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Fantasiestucke in Callots Manier (1814/15)Jaques Callot, Ritter Gluck, Kreisleriana, Don Juan, Nachricht von den neuesten Schicksalen des Hundes Berganza, Der Magnetiseur, Der goldne Topf, Die Abenteuer der Silvester-Nacht, KreislerianaDie Elixier...

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Der Roman Die Elixiere des Teufels ist eine fiktive Autobiographie. Der Protagonist, der Mönch Medardus, der mit nahezu allen handelnden Personen des Romans in irgendeiner Weise verwandt ist, weiß zu Beginn des Romans nichts von diesen Verbindunge...

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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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En samling nyöversatta berättelser av E T A Hoffmann som fått titeln Don Juan och andra noveller. För nyöversättningen och efterordet om Hoffmanns liv och verk svarar Hans Blomqvist och Erik Ågren. Till denna volym har vi valt ut följande av Hoffm...

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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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On Christmas Eve, Marie Stahlbaum huddles in the dark with her brother, Fritz, waiting for the Christ Child to come. When their parents open the doors to the parlor, the scene that awaits them is mesmerizing: a Christmas tree aglow with candles an...

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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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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

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