The Nutcracker and the Mouse King (Picture Book) - formato ePub

"El cascanueces y el rey de los ratones" (en alemán: "Nussknacker und Mausekönig") es un cuento escrito por Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann en 1816. La historia trata sobre el nuevo juguete de la joven...

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E.T.A. Hoffmann: per Baudelaire era l’autore del «comico assoluto», per Walter Scott più che di un critico, avrebbe avuto bisogno di uno psichiatra, per Goethe le sue storie nuocevano alla salute, mentre...

Tre racconti notturni («Il cuore di pietra», «Il Sanctus» e «Il voto») dove il fantastico si fa narrazione del lato oscuro e meraviglioso della mente umana. Tre storie fitte di colpi di scena, scritte...

Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann (* 24. Januar 1776 in Königsberg; † 25. Juni 1822 in Berlin; Vorname eigentlich Ernst Theodor Wilhelm, 1805 umbenannt in Anlehnung an den von ihm bewunderten Wolfgang Amadeus...

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