num_pages: 320
description: 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 hostile, absurd world."The editors have made an excellent selection, and the result is a book of great distinction."—Denis Donoghue, New York Review of Books"The translators have proved fully equal to all the challenges of Hoffmann's romantic irony and his richly allusive prose, giving us an accurate and idiomatic rendering that also retains much of the original flavor."—Harry Zohn, Saturday Review
language: English
title: Tales of E.T.A. Hoffmann
titlecomplete: Tales of E.T.A. Hoffmann
genres: Classics, Fantasy, Gothic, Short Stories, German Literature, Germany, Literature, 19th Century, Fiction, Horror
ratings_count: 2159
series: Gesammelte Werke in fünf Bänden
publisher: The University Of Chicago Press