Hoffmann

1969 · 161359 — Chicago & London: The University of Chicago Press 1969. Octavo two volumes cloth. First edition of this collection. Volume one collects seven tales including "The Sandman" "The Golden Pot" perhaps Hoffmann's finest single piece of fiction and "The Mines of Falun" a subterranean fantasy of love and death. The whole of volume two consists of Hoffmann's novel THE LIFE AND OPINIONS OF KATTER MURR . a subtle satire which tells of the doings of Murr the tomcat. KATER MURR one of Hoffmann's longer works was unfinished at the time of his death. The first volume was published in 1820 and the second in 1822. The projected third volume was never written. Hoffmann "rivals Poe whom he influenced in his importance as a creator of the modern supernatural tale." - Sullivan ed The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural pp. 204-05. "The celebrated short tales and novels of . Hoffmann . are a byword for mellowness of background and maturity of form . they convey the grotesque rather than the terrible." - Lovecraft Supernatural Horror in Literature p. 45. Clute and Grant eds The Encyclopedia of Fantasy 1997 p. 472-73. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature II pp. 831-835. A fine set in cloth slipcase without dust jackets as issued. #161359 The University of Chicago Press unknown books