The King's Betrothed
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A dreamy young woman finds herself betrothed to a preposterous gnome who rules an underground kingdom of vegetables, in The King's Betrothed – a gloriously comic fairy tale from a master of German Romanticism.
Published in 1821 in The Serapion Brethren, this sparkling satire pokes affectionate fun at Romantic pretension, as the sensible Ännchen is wooed by the absurd carrot-king Daucus Carota and rescued by wit and good humour. Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann (1776 – 1822), the Königsberg-born jurist and composer, wrote some of the most inventive and playful tales of the nineteenth century.
E.T.A. Hoffmann
Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann (1776–1822) was a German author, artist, and composer who is best remembered for his story “The Nutcracker and the King of Mice.”
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