Author: Hoffman, E(ernst). T(heodor). A(madeus)., edited by Christopher Lazare,
Title: Tales of Hoffman.
Description: NY, A. A. Wyn, 1946. VG in Fair DJ. This is the first publication in modern translation of Hoffman's famous tales. His name has long been synonymous. with the fabulous, the supernatural, and the grotesque. In continental literature his unmistakable mark can be seen in the work of Hans Christian Andersen, Hugo, Dumas, Gautier and Stevenson. In America Longfellow borrowed whole passages of description for his Hyperion, while the inestimable indebtedness of Poe's Horror stories to Hoffman's Tales has motivated the admirable detective work and incontrovertible evidence of a dozen monographs and Ph.D. theses. The Tales supplied the themes for operas by Wagner and Offenbach, Delibes' Coppelia, and Tchaikowsky's Nutcracker Suite. Maroon binding with gilt drawing of Hoffmann in a double gilt box drawing on front cover, gilt lettering on spine. Owner name in pencil front endpaper, DJ has serious edge wear.

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