
The Golden Pot and Other Tales
Author: E.T.A. Hoffmann, Ritchie Robertson
Narrator: John McDonough
Unabridged: 21 hr 56 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 05/02/2014

Author: E.T.A. Hoffmann, Ritchie Robertson
Narrator: John McDonough
Unabridged: 21 hr 56 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 05/02/2014
Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann (1776–1822) was a German author, artist, and composer who is best remembered for his story “The Nutcracker and the King of Mice.â€
E.T.A. Hoffmann wrote surrealistic stories long before the term surrealism was coined. Anselmus observed that one snake held out its little head to him. Through all his limbs there went a shock like electricity; he quivered in his inmost heart: he kept gazing up, and a pair of glorious dark-blue eye......more
These five stories are strange, funny, thoughtful, absurd, magic—of a time when the world was less convinced of the possible and impossible. I finish the collection persuaded that Hoffmann was one of the great innovators of literary history; that he had a profound influence not only on fantasy and s......more
The overall score for this 5-story collection is 3.9. But I am giving it 5 stars rather than 4 because 3/5 stories were stellar (ergo the majority of the book was stellar and that is what I want the take home message to be)…think E.T. A. Hoffmann….stellar! 😊 • The Golden Pot — 5 stars • The Sandman —......more
In Peter Richters „Dresden Revisited“ nimmt er bei der Beschreibung seines Wiedersehens mit Dresden Bezug auf den Studenten Anselmus in „Der goldene Topf“, der durch das schwarze Tor zur Stadt hereinstolpert, in der mitunter merkwürdige Dinge geschehen. Das Dresden-Setting ließ Hoffmanns Buch auf me......more