E.T.A. Hoffmann
Birth date: January 24, 1776
Died: June 25, 1822
E.T.A. Hoffmann's Books
A lot of people told me that Hoffmann’s The Sandman is uncanny, if not creepy, and good grief was everybody right about that. Just a short anecdote about how atmospheric this text is: I took The Sandmann with me as I went to the hair dresser yesterday. As expected, I had to wait for about half an ho...
That was not what I was expecting. I was expecting a boogeyman story and we get a weird little psycho story instead. Although, I do wonder about Coppelius showing up at the end. And why was he allowed to be so mean to the kids? And why did the the little spy glass set Nathanael off at the end once...
TITLE: Nutcracker and Mouse King and the Tale of the Nutcracker [Penguin Classics] AUTHORS: E.T.A. Hoffmann, Alexandre Dumas TRANSLATION: Joachim Neugroschel FORMAT: Paperback PUBLICATION DATE: 2007 ISBN-13: 9780143104834 ________________________ DESCRIPTION: "The original stories...
The Books: Bingo No. 3: Witches – Terry Pratchett / Neil Gaiman: Good Omens Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman's hilarious end-of-the-world spoof: Armageddon as foretold in the nice and accurate predictions of one Agnes Nutter, witch. (Time of Armageddon: Next Saturday. Place: Tadfield, Oxfordshire.)...
The Books: Vampires vs. Werewolves – Terry Pratchett: Feet of Clay (Discworld #19) Part of the Night Watch subseries and officially now one of my favorite non-Witches Pratchett novels. And I also have a new favorite non-Witches Discworld character: the Night Watch's resident female werewolf Consta...
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