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Series
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Hoffmann is among the greatest and most popular of the German Romantics. This selection puts in the foreground those tales in which the real and the supernatural are brought into contact and conflict. The humour of these tales is a result of the incongruity of supernatural beings at large in an ostentatiously everyday world.
Publisher
Walt Disney
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Helen Mirren, Keira Knightley and Mackenzie Foy star in this fantasy adventure directed by Lasse Hallstrom and Joe Johnston. Based on the story by E.T.A. Hoffmann, the film follows Clara (Foy), a young girl searching for a special key which will unlock a box containing a gift from her mother. At a lavish party on Christmas Eve, Clara's godfather Drosselmeyer (Morgan Freeman) presents her with a golden thread which will lead her to the key. However,...