'The Serapion Brethren' is the name of a literary and social circle created in Berlin in 1818 by the German romantic writer E. T. A. Hoffmann and his friends. 'The Serapion Brethren' is also the name of a four-volume collection of Hoffmann's novellas and fairy tales that appeared in 1819, 1820, and 1821.Volume 1 includes the stories: 'The Story of Serapion', 'An Interrupted Cadence', 'The Poet and the Composer', 'A Fragment of the Lives of Three Friends', 'The Mines of Falun', 'Nut...

'The Serapion Brethren' is the name of a literary and social circle created in Berlin in 1818 by the German romantic writer E. T. A. Hoffmann and his friends.'The Serapion Brethren' is also the name of a four-volume collection of Hoffmann's novellas and fairy tales that appeared in 1819, 1820, and 1821.Volume 2 includes the stories: 'The Life of a Well-known Character', 'Albertine's wooers', 'The Uncanny Guest', 'Mademoiselle Scuderi', 'Gamblers', 'Fortune', 'Signor Formica...

Hoffmann's stories highly influenced 19th-century literature, and he is one of the major authors of the Romantic movement.Hoffmann is one of the best-known representatives of German Romanticism, and a pioneer of the fantasy genre, with a taste for the macabre combined with realism that influenced such authors as Edgar Allan Poe, Nikolai Gogol, Charles Dickens, Charles Baudelaire, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Franz Kafka and Alfred Hitchcock.Hoffmann's work makes a considerable contribu...

Set in Paris during King Louis the fourteenth's reign, E.T.A Hoffmann's 'Mademoiselle Scuderi' throws the reader into a city under siege from an organised group of thieves who rob citizens of their expensive jewellery. Aristocrat, Mademoiselle Scuderi, pens a poem mocking the men who now fear going out at night to see their mistresses but when an unexpected man visits her and delivers a box of jewellery, as thanks for supporting the thieves, Scuderi is plunged into a dangerous game of pass...

"The Sandman" ("Der Sandmann"): One of Hoffmann's most famous tales, "The Sandman" tells the story of Nathanael, a young man who becomes obsessed with a sinister figure named Coppelius, whom he associates with traumatic childhood memories. The story delves into themes of psychological horror, identity, and the uncanny, culminating in a chilling and tragic conclusion."The Golden Pot" ("Der goldene Topf"): This novella is a quintessential example of Hoffmann's blend of fantasy and reality. I...

This eBook features the unabridged text of ‘The Complete Short Stories by Mary Shelley - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Complete Works of Mary Shelley’.Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. The Delphi Classics edition of...

One of the bestselling late Victorian authors, the English novelist Ouida, pseudonym of Maria Louise Ramé, is known for her extravagant melodramatic romances of fashionable life. Her novels were considered controversial, offering a marked contrast to the moralising prose of early Victorian literature. Ouida penned gripping sensational novels, proto-adventure stories and important critiques on contemporary society. This comprehensive eBook presents Ouida’s collected works, with numerous ill...

Silvio Pellico was born at Saluzzo, in North Italy, in the year of the fall of the Bastille, 1789. His health as a child was feeble, his temper gentle, and he had the instincts of a poet. Before he was ten years old he had written a tragedy on a theme taken from Macpherson's Ossian. His chief delight as a boy was in acting plays with other children, and he acquired from his father a strong interest in the patriotic movements of the time. He fastened upon French literature during a stay of som...

The Devil, or Satan, Lucifer, Beelzebub, Mephistopheles appears frequently as a character in literature. The figure of the Devil or Satan personifies evil. Many writers have incorporated Satan into their works and some of their characters tried to make a deal with the Devil and come up on the winning side. These are their stories: The Bottle Imp (Robert Louis Stevenson) The Sorrows of Satan (Marie Corelli) Satan's Diary (Leonid Andreyev) A Modern Mephistopheles (Louisa May Alcott) The Devi...

HEINE gathers up and focuses for us in one vivid point all those influences of his own time which are the forces of to-day. He appears before us, to put it in his own way, as a youthful and militant Knight of the Holy Ghost, tilting against the spectres of the past and liberating the imprisoned energies of the human spirit. His interest from this point of view lies, largely, apart from his interest as a supreme lyric poet, the brother of Catullus and Villon and Burns; we here approach him ...

Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann (24 January 1776 – 25 June 1822), better known by his pen name E. T. A. Hoffmann (Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann), was a German Romantic author of fantasy and horror, a jurist, composer, music critic, draftsman and caricaturist.] His stories form the basis of Jacques Offenbach's famous opera The Tales of Hoffmann, in which Hoffman appears (heavily fictionalized) as the hero. He is also the author of the novella The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, on which the ...

The Wonder Club is a small clique of brotherhood which assembles some of the most eminent men who meet in a rather esteemed pub known as the "Headless Lady." The chief delight of this club was to tell or to listen to stories which were all more or less of the marvelous class, and which each took it by turn to relate to the rest. These are their stories: Volume I: The Phantom Flea—The Lawyer's Story The Spirit Lovers—The Doctor's Story Containing Mr. Parnassus's Poem, The Glacier King The M...