These tales are full of missed opportunities and strangled attempts at happiness then culminate in brief victory only to be cut short by a devastating event. The Entail is a creepy ghost story, set in a dilapidated castle with secret rooms, that plays on some Gothic themes such as mental illness and payment for “sins of the father.” However, where Hoffmann truly shines is in his favored genre of romantic tragedy.Doge and Dogaressa and The Mines at Falun are both stories of love cut short by misfortune. The Wounded Storyteller will introduce Hoffmann's timeless work to a new generation of readers.Ernst Theodor Wilhelm (Amadeus) Hoffmann may very well be the grandfather (or great-grandfather) of a number of fictional genres and this collection of his short stories provides a great overview of his work.Mademoiselle de Scudery is a classic murder mystery with plot twists, false heros and a surprise ending. A foreword by novelist Karen Russell delves into the influence the tales had on her own literary career and the ways in which she emulates Hoffmann today. Pivotal scenes of transformation, courage, love, desire, and betrayal are illustrated through a feminist lens, focusing on strong, self-aware female characters. Frank's richly rendered gouache and chalk pastels reveal Hoffmann's worlds in full-page drawings and marginalia. In addition to offering fresh translations, Zipes introduces the project and sheds light on how Hoffmann's lifetime of personal traumas shaped his writing.

Artist Natalie Frank and leading fairy-tale scholar Jack Zipes have joined forces in this lavishly illustrated volume of five of Hoffmann's most influential tales: The Golden Pot, The Sandman, The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, The Mystifying Child, and The Mines of Falun. His innovative stories explore ideas of madness, genius, doppelgängers, artificial intelligence, and the boundaries between realities and dreams. Hoffmann (1776-1822) was one of the greatest German Romantic authors of fantasy and a pioneer in the genre we now call Gothic horror. Hoffmann's classic tales of Gothic horror and fantasy are presented in a new translation accompanying the beguiling drawings of Natalie Frank E.

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