title: Weird Tales. Vol. I by E.T A. Hoffman, Fiction, Fantasy
author: E. T. a. Hoffmann
description: Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann (1776 - 1822) was a Prussian Romantic author of fantasy and horror, a jurist, composer, music critic, draftsman and caricaturist. His stories form the basis of Jacques Offenbach's famous opera The Tales of Hoffmann, in which Hoffmann appears (heavily fictionalized) as the hero. He is also the author of the novella The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, on which the famous ballet The Nutcracker is based. The ballet Copplia is based on two other stories that Hoffmann wrote, while Schumann's Kreisleriana is based on Hoffmann's character Johannes Kreisler. Hoffmann's stories were very influential during the 19th century and he is one of the major authors of the Romantic movement.
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  TH E 
  B E S T 
  TA L E S  OF 
  Hoffmann 
  B Y  E .  T.A. HOFFMANN 
  Edited with an Introduction by 
  E. F. BLEILER 
  Dover Publications, Inc., New York 
  
  Copyright © 1967 by Dover Publications, Inc. 
  All 
  rights 
  reserved 
  under 
  Pan 
  American 
  and 
  International Copyright Conventions. 
  Published in Canada by General Publishing Com· 
  pany, Ltd., 30 Lesmill Road, Don Mills, Toronto, 
  Ontario. 
  Published in the United Kingdom by Constable 
  and 
  Company, 
  Ltd., 
  10 
  Orange Street, 
  London 
  WC 2. 
  This Dover edition, first published in 1967, is a 
  new selection of ten stories by E. T. A. Hoffmann. 
  The material has been reprinted without abridg­
  ment. 
  Translations used are those of Major Alexander 
  Ewing ("Automata," "Nutcracker and the King of 
  Mice," 
  "Tobias Martin, Master Cooper, and 
  His 
  Men," "The 
  Mines of 
  Falun," "The 
  King's Be­
  trothed"); J. T. Bealby ("The Sand·Man