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  • Vampirism and Other Gothic Tales

    The First Short Horror Stories

    Writing at the dawn of the 19th century, E.T.A. Hoffmann was, in many ways, the father of modern horror. This collection of some of his best work offers tales of vampirism, ghosts, sorcery, extrasensory perception, and a deadly family dispute over inheritance money. Settings include a cemetery, a haunted castle, and a seemingly abandoned old house. Hoffmann's work often even foresaw the age of ... Read more

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  • The Sand Man and Other Stories

    The Sand-man and Other Stories brings together some of E.T.A. Hoffmann's most influential tales, where the fantastic and the uncanny intersect with psychological depth. The central story, The Sandman, follows Nathanael, a young man haunted since childhood by a terrifying figure associated with the legend of the Sandman. As an adult, he becomes obsessed with the mysterious Coppola, a lens-seller ... Read more

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  • 50 Must Read Classics for Children

    Book 1 (Bauer Classics)

    Series Book 1 - Bauer Classics for Children and Teens
    A Christmas Carol por Charles DickensThe Little Prince por Antoine De Saint-ExupéryThe Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe por Daniel DefoeThe Secret Garden por Frances Hodgson BurnettThe Ice-Maiden and Other Tales por Hans Christian AndersenFive Children and It por Edith NesbitThe Adventures of Pinocchio por C. CollodiThe Nursery Al... ... Read more

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  • Weird Tales Volume 1

    Translated by John Thomas Bealby ...
    'Weird Tales Volume 1' (1885) was written by German Romantic author E. T. A. Hoffmann, most famous for his novella 'The Nutcracker and the Mouse King' (1816). Included in this first of two volumes are the short stories: The Cremona Violin, The Fermata, Signor Formica, The Sandman, The Entail and Arthur's Hall. These classic short stories are perfect for fans of horror and fantasy fiction and the ... Read more

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  • Tales of Hoffmann

    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 Mademoiselle de Scudery, in which an apprentice goldsmith and a female novelist find themselves caught up in a series of jewel thefts and murders. In the ... Read more

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  • The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr

    Translated by Anthea Bell ...
    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 alternate at dramatic moments, two wildly different characters emerge from the confusion - Murr, the confident scholar, lover, carouser and brawler, and ... Read more

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  • The Devil's Elixir

    Translated by Robert Pearse Gillies ...
    E.T.A. Hoffmann's 'The Devil's Elixir' is a gothic, horror-fantasy novel inspired by Matthew Gregory Lewis's novel 'The Monk'.Medardus is the son of a sinner and is raised in a monastery to atone for his father's past. When Medardus succumbs to temptation, he is dragged into a deadly mystery that sees him travel to Rome, pursued by his murderous lookalike.At the Vatican in Rome, the monk's only ... Read more

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  • Weird Tales Volume 2

    Translated by John Thomas Bealby ...
    'Weird Tales Volume 2' (1885) was written by famous German Romantic author E.T.A. Hoffmann. Included in this second and final volume of short stories are: 'The Doge and Dogess', 'Master Martin the Cooper,' 'Mademoiselle de Scudéri,' 'Gambler's Luck,' 'Master Johannes Wacht,' and a bibliographic essay from the translator entitled, 'Biographical Notes.' These classic short stories are perfect for ... Read more

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  • 50+ German masterpieces you have to read before you die

    Faust, The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, The Trial, Letter To A Young Poet

    German authors that were geniuses of their time and continue to inspire us today.German literature is rich in beautifully crafted stories, especially from the eras of Sturm und Drang, Romanticism, and Realism. Certain German books are an excellent introduction not only to German literature but to German culture and the history of Germany too.This book contains:Sebastian BrandtThe Ship of FoolsE. T ... Read more

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  • Mademoiselle Scuderi

    Translated by Alexander Ewing ...
    Set in Paris during King Louis the fourteenth's reign, E.T.A Hoffmann's 'Mademoiselle Scuderi' throws the reader into a city under siege from an organised group of thieves who rob citizens of their expensive jewellery. Aristocrat, Mademoiselle Scuderi, pens a poem mocking the men who now fear going out at night to see their mistresses but when an unexpected man visits her and delivers a box of ... Read more

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  • The Serapion Brethren Volume 2

    Translated by Alexander Ewing ...
    'The Serapion Brethren' is the name of a literary and social circle created in Berlin in 1818 by the German romantic writer E. T. A. Hoffmann and his friends.'The Serapion Brethren' is also the name of a four-volume collection of Hoffmann's novellas and fairy tales that appeared in 1819, 1820, and 1821.Volume 2 includes the stories: 'The Life of a Well-known Character', 'Albertine's wooers', 'The ... Read more

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  • The Nutcracker and the Mouse King (Christmas Classics Series) (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. Fantasy Classic

    E.T.A. Hoffmann's The Nutcracker and the Mouse King is far darker, stranger, and more psychologically suggestive than the familiar ballet it inspired. Framed as a Christmas tale, it follows young Marie Stahlbaum as her gifted nutcracker becomes entangled in a nocturnal war with the seven-headed Mouse King. Hoffmann blends domestic realism, fairy-tale metamorphosis, grotesque fantasy, and Romantic ... Read more

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