The Nutcracker and The Strange Child (Pushkin Collection) - Softcover

ETA Hoffmann was a German author of fantasy and horror, a jurist, composer, music critic, draftsman and caricaturist. He is the subject and hero of Offenbach’s famous opera The Tales of Hoffmann and is one of the major authors of the Romantic movement.
Anthea Bell is a freelance translator from German and French, specializing in fiction. She has won a number of translation awards in the UK, the USA and Europe, including for her most recent translation for Pushkin Press, Stefan Zweig’s Burning Secret.

"Fascinating and marvelous material." - Richard Wagner

"I have been reading off and on a few things by the ‘mad’ Hoffmann, mad, fantastic stuff, here and there a brilliant thought." - Sigmund Freud

"Long before his death he was the kind of author anyone who reads at all reads." - R.J. Hollingdale

"Take a vigorous imagination and a perfectly clear spirit, a bitter melancholia and an inexhaustible appetite for buffoonery and extravagance: a man who can draw with a firm literary hand the most fantastic figures, who can conjure up the strangest scenes through the clearness of his narrative and the truth of his detail, who can make one dream, laugh and shiver at the same time, who writes like Callot, with the inventiveness of the Arabian Nights and the storytelling ability of Walter Scott, and there you have Hoffmann." - André-Marie Ampère, Le Globe 1823