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The Sandman by E.T.A. Hoffmann
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.68Nathanael remains haunted by his childhood fear that the lawyer Coppelius, a strange night-time visitor who used to come to his house to conduct alchemical experiments with his father - the... -
The Nutcracker by E.T.A. Hoffmann 9780241597064
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.81Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.The gift of a... -
E.T.A. Hoffmann Ritchie Robertson 9781836391012
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78E.T.A. Hoffmann (1776-1822) is celebrated for his supernatural fiction such as 'The Sandman' as well as his musical achievements, notably the opera Undine. This book offers a concise yet... -
Devil's Elixirs E.T.A. Hoffmann 9781847495228
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.97The son of a heinous sinner, Medardus is brought up in a monastery to atone for his father's wicked ways. However, after succumbing to temptation, Medardus himself is lured into a life of sin. A... -
The Nutcracker and the Mouse King: The Graphic Novel by E.T.A. Hoffmann
Booksplease Price: £15.45Of all the gifts under the tree on Christmas Eve, only one captures Marie Stahlbaum's heart: a humble nutcracker. He's a curious little man with kind eyes, sweet red cheeks, and a friendly... -
A Study of the Major Novellas of E.T.A. Hoffmann by Birgitt Roeder
Booksplease Price: £96.11Analysis of the novellas of the German Romantic writer and composer, focusing on the issues of art and the artist. The German Romantic writer and composer E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776-1822) -- perhaps... -
E.T.A. Hoffmann's Musical Aesthetics by Abigail Chantler 9781138253056
RRP: £55.99Booksplease Price: £49.89Whilst E.T.A. Hoffmann (1776-1822) is most widely known as the author of fantastic tales, he was also prolific as a music critic, productive as a composer, and active as a conductor. This book... -
The Golden Pot: and other tales of the uncanny by E.T.A. Hoffmann 9781953861702
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953861702Author E.T.A. HoffmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Archipelago BooksPublisher... -
E.T.A. Hoffmann: Leben - Werk - Wirkung by Detlef Kremer 9783110268317
RRP: £45.50Booksplease Price: £41.99E.T.A. Hoffmann (1776-1822) war ein universal begabter Kunstler, Musiker, Jurist und Autor, dessen phantastische Erzahlungen und romantische Kunstmarchen massgeblichen Einfluss auf die Weltliteratur... -
The King's Bride: Annotated Edition with an introduction by Paul Turner E.T.A. Hoffmann 9781847499257
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.68Happily engaged to the poet Amandus, Fraulein Anna is horrified to discover that a beautiful ring, mysteriously deposited upon her finger whilst tending her kitchen garden, forces her into marriage... -
E.T.A. Hoffmann's Orient: Romantic Aesthetics and the German Imagination by Joanna Neilly 9781781883099
Booksplease Price: £11.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781883099Author Joanna NeillyFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint LegendaPublisher... -
The Ghost of One's Self: Doppelgangers in Mystery, Horror and Science Fiction Films Paul Meehan 9781476665665
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £25.19For millennia people have held folk beliefs about the existence of the doppelganger--"double walker" in German--a look-alike second self that is often the antithesis of one's identity and is... -
E.T.A. Hoffmann's Orient: Romantic Aesthetics and the German Imagination: Romantic Aesthetics and the German Imagination by Joanna Neilly 9781909662988
Booksplease Price: £80.73The German Romantics were fascinated by the Orient and its potential to inspire poetic creation. E.T.A. Hoffmann was no exception: across the wide range of his work as an author, composer, and music... -
Der Sandmann/The Sandman By E. T. A. Hoffmann: The Original German and a New English Translation with Critical Introductions by E.T.A. Hoffmann 9780761871903
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E.T.A. Hoffmann & Alexandre Dumas' The Nutcracker for Kids: 3 Short Melodramatic Plays for 3 Group Sizes by Ron Leishman 9781954571235
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £7.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781954571235Author Ron LeishmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Playing with PlaysPublisher... -
The Question of Madness in the Works of E.T.A. Hoffmann and Mary Shelley: With Particular Reference to Frankenstein and Der Sandmann by Karin Preuss 9783631506042
RRP: £56.60Booksplease Price: £47.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783631506042Author Karin PreussFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint Peter Lang AGPublisher Peter... -
German Stories: Rolandsitten; or the Deed of Entail (Translation of Der Majoratscherr by E.T.A. Hoffmann). George Selding by Robert Pearse Gillies 9780461237696
Booksplease Price: £17.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780461237696Author Robert Pearse GilliesFormat PaperbackPage Count 382Imprint HardPress LtdPublisher... -
Uncanny Creatures: Doll Thinking in Modern German Culture Christophe Koné 9780472133291
Booksplease Price: £55.25Germany held a monopoly on the manufacture and export of bisque toy dolls in Europe before WWI. Yet, dolls' omnipresence in the material, visual, and literary culture of the modern German-speaking... -
From Goethe To Gide: Feminism, Aesthetics and the Literary Canon in France and Germany, 1770-1936 by Mary Orr 9780859897228
RRP: £22.50Booksplease Price: £20.01From Goethe to Gide brings together twelve essays on canonical male writers (six French and six German) commissioned from leading specialists from Britain and North America. These essays, aimed at... -
Alexander von Humboldt: Perceiving the World by Beate I. Allert 9781612498294
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £32.08Alexander von Humboldt: Perceiving the World provides an interdisciplinary exploration into Humboldt's approach to seeing and describing the many subjects he pursued. Though remembered primarily as... -
Uncanny Creatures: Doll Thinking in Modern German Culture Christophe Koné 9780472039739
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £16.59Germany held a monopoly on the manufacture and export of bisque toy dolls in Europe before WWI. Yet, dolls' omnipresence in the material, visual, and literary culture of the modern German-speaking... -
Alexander von Humboldt: Perceiving the World by Beate I. Allert 9781612498287
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £64.30Alexander von Humboldt: Perceiving the World provides an interdisciplinary exploration into Humboldt's approach to seeing and describing the many subjects he pursued. Though remembered primarily as... -
Romantic Beasts: Pervasion, Eccentricity, Exhibition Michael Demson 9781684485567
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £32.08By staging human-animal encounters, Romantic literature and art repeatedly questioned how "human" animals could be and how "animal" humans in fact are. Romantic-era authors and artists often depicted... -
Mlle de Scuderi by E. T. A. Hoffman
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £5.00As Paris is shaken by a spate of murderous robberies, the aristocratic Mademoiselle de Scuderi pens a poem to poke fun at the cowardly lovers who now fear to go out at night to see their mistresses... -
The Nutcracker by E. T. A. Hoffmann 9781665977784
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £12.56E.T.A. Hoffmann's whimsical novella, originally titled Nutcracker and Mouse King and the inspiration behind Tchaikovsky's ballet, now has a festive new look in this beautiful edition.When Maria is... -
The Nutcracker by E. T. A. Hoffmann 9781665977777
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.86E.T.A. Hoffmann's whimsical novella, originally titled Nutcracker and Mouse King and the inspiration behind Tchaikovsky's ballet, now has a festive new look in this beautiful edition.When Maria is... -
Romantic Beasts: Pervasion, Eccentricity, Exhibition Michael Demson 9781684485574
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £96.15By staging human-animal encounters, Romantic literature and art repeatedly questioned how "human" animals could be and how "animal" humans in fact are. Romantic-era authors and artists often depicted... -
Sanctuaries of Light in Nineteenth-Century European Literature by Hugo G. Walter 9781433109133
RRP: £61.90Booksplease Price: £55.31This collection of insightful and provocative essays explores the theme of sanctuaries of light in nineteenth-century European literature, especially in selected works by William Wordsworth, E.T.A... -
The Nutcracker (Collector's Edition) by E.T.A. Hoffman 9781840229158
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.28“The Nutcracker” is a classic fairy tale that tells the story of a young girl named Maria who receives a magical nutcracker doll on Christmas Eve. That night, she is swept into a fantastical world... -
Waystations of the Deep Night by Marcel Brion 9781939663504
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50A canonical gem of the nocturnal fantastic, in the tradition of German Romantics such as E.T.A. Hoffmann and Novalis First published in France in the dark year of 1942, the story collection... -
The Nutcracker and the Mouse King by E.T.A. Hoffman 9781513291635
Booksplease Price: £5.14The Nutcracker and the Mouse King (1816) is a story by E.T.A. Hoffmann. A leading writer of the German Romantic period, Hoffmann inspired generations of artists with his thrilling blend of fantasy,... -
Tales of Hoffmann by E. T. A. Hoffmann
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.23E.T.A. Hoffman's wildly original fictions are some of the most unusual examples of German Romanticism's dark passions, and the stories in Tales of Hoffman are selected and translated from the German... -
Theodor Fontane and the European Context: Literature, Culture and Society in Prussia and Europe by Patricia Howe 9789042012363
Booksplease Price: £72.37On the centenary of Fontane's death and at the turn of the century these essays take a new look at this supreme chronicler of Prussia and of the Germany that emerges after 1871. Written by scholars... -
Christmas Fairy Tales: 12 enchanting stories including The Christmas Cuckoo and The Nutcracker Neil Philip 9781861478740
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £8.04This sparkling collection of fairy tales captures the true spirit of Christmas - a mixture of magic, fantasy and joy. It opens with Hans Andersen's moving story, 'The Book of Fairy Tales, ' and also... -
Christmas Classics by Christian Birmingham
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.54A mini deluxe box set that brings back 3 of our classic Christmas mini books that have been out of print with new handsome POB covers for this special slipcase edition:The Night Before Christmas, by... -
Women in Rock, Women in Romanticism by James Rovira 9781032331669
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £37.99Women in Rock, Women in Romanticism is the first book-length work to explore the interrelationships between contemporary female musicians and eighteenth- and nineteenth-century art, music, and... -
Nutcracker and Mouse King and The Tale of the Nutcracker by E. T. A. Hoffmann
Booksplease Price: £10.80E. T. A. Hoffman's "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King (1816)" is a fairy tale of a young girl's magical dream, filled with stories with dark undertone. In 1844, Dumas adapted the tale as a children's... -
The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr by E. T. A. Hoffmann
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Tomcat Murr is a loveable, self-taught animal who has written his own autobiography. But a printer's error causes his story to be accidentally mixed and spliced with a book about the composer... -
Fantasy: The Literature of Subversion by Rosemary Jackson
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37This study argues against vague interpretations of fantasy as mere escapism and seeks to define it as a distinct kind of narrative. A general theoretical section introduces recent work on fantasy,... -
Musical Sincerity and Transcendence in Film: Reflexive Fictions by Timothy B. Cochran 9781032044309
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37Musical Sincerity and Transcendence in Film focuses on the ways filmmakers treat music reflexively—that is, draw attention to what it is and what it can do. Examining a wide range of movies from the...