The Golden Pot and Other Tales, E.T.A. Hoffmann
The Golden Pot and Other Tales, E.T.A. Hoffmann
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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

Categories: Fiction, Classic


Synopsis

Hoffmann, among the greatest and most popular of the German Romantics, is renowned for his humorous and sometimes horrifying tales of supernatural beings. 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. This new translation includes The Golden Pot, The Sandman, Princess Brambilla, Master Flea, and My Cousin's Corner Window. About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. 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. About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. 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.

About E.T.A. Hoffmann

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.”


Reviews

Goodreads review by Vit on January 27, 2022

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

Goodreads review by BJ on January 04, 2024

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

Goodreads review by JimZ on November 26, 2020

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

Goodreads review by Babette on November 29, 2022

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