The Golden Flower Pot
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A hapless student stumbles into a hidden world of talking snakes, fire-spirits, and a lovelorn archivist who is secretly a salamander. The Golden Flower Pot is a shimmering masterpiece of Romantic fantasy.
First published in 1814 and subtitled a modern fairy tale, this dazzling novella set in the streets of Dresden weaves the everyday and the marvellous into one enchanted whole. Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann (1776 – 1822), the Königsberg-born jurist and composer, was the most inventive fabulist of German Romanticism, and this is widely held to be among his finest tales.
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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