1913 Tales Of Hoffman Color Prints Dust Jacket Offenbach Illustrated Gift Idea
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1913 TALES OF HOFFMAN COLOR PRINTS DUST JACKET OFFENBACH ILLUSTRATED GIFT IDEA. With the rare dust jacket in mylar. Illustrated with 8 outstanding color plates. In addition, his stories form the basis of Jacques Offenbach's opera The Tales of Hoffmann, in which Hoffmann appears (heavily fictionalized) as the hero. From 1913, this is Tales of Hoffman, Retold from Offenbach's Opera by Cyril Falls & Illustrated by A. Brantingham Simpson, R.M. Published in London by Chatto & Windus. With the rare dust jacket in mylar. Sized 9x6 inches, 164 pages. Illustrated with 8 outstanding color plates. Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann (born Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann; 24 January 1776 – 25 June 1822) was a German Romantic author of fantasy and gothic horror, a jurist, composer, music critic and artist. His short story "The Sandman" is seen as a pioneering work of horror fiction, while his novella Mademoiselle de Scuderi is regarded as one of the earliest examples of crime fiction. Several of his works have been reimagined in other media: He is the author of the novella The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, on which Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcracker is based. In addition, his stories form the basis of Jacques Offenbach's opera The Tales of Hoffmann, in which Hoffmann appears (heavily fictionalized) as the hero. The ballet Coppélia is based on two other stories that Hoffmann wrote, while Schumann's Kreisleriana is based on Hoffmann's character Johannes Kreisler. Hoffmann's stories highly influenced 19th-century literature, and he is one of the major authors of the Romantic movement.
