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    <![CDATA[&lt;div&gt;Ten of Hoffmann's greatest tales, enormously popular in Europe but rarely seen in the United States: &quot;The Golden Flower Pot,&quot; &quot;Automata,&quot; &quot;Nutcracker and the King of Mice,&quot; &quot;The Sand Man,&quot; and 6 others. Edited and corrected by E. F. Bleiler. Features 7 drawings by Hoffmann.<br/>&lt;/div&gt;]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love Hoffman's stories that glow with a vivid imagination and profound meaning. Sometimes it's hard to get to the bottom of his complex metaphors, but it's well worth the work. So far, my favorite story was the Golden Flowerpot, but I also really enjoyed his original &quot;The Nutcracker And the M...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80192599">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Anything by Hoffman is generally good, though the &quot;essential&quot; piece to read from his works is &quot;The Sandman,&quot; which is one of those narratives that taps into archetypal characterizations and feelings and leaves you like Jerry Seinfeld after George Costanza confesses his deepest fe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26290368">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Stories you must read from this collection: The Sandman, The Nutcracker, and The Golden Pot. ETA Hoffman writes ecstatically and honestly and I love his work.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Certainly, lovers of fantasy, scifi and horror owe a debt to Hoffman, but the tales simply aren't very accessible to modern readers, something even the editor of this collection admits in his introduction. In many cases, it's difficult to tell precisely which elements are peculiar to Hoffman's imagi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50033158">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Hoffman's romantic German tales are of a style and manner very different from today's writing, but they had a deep influence on Poe and the Russians and so bear rereading to understand the provenance of some of the 20th Century's literary tropes.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved all the stories here but &quot;The Golden Flowerpot&quot; is the one that really fed my imagination.  If I ever get around to it I think this would be a lovely story to illustrate.  The pictures it makes in my head make my eyes dance and sparkle.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Sorry, I just could not get through this. I plan on trying again, the language and images are very lush and interesting, but I was just not in the right frame of mind for something this &quot;out there&quot;.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I only read &quot;The Sand-man.&quot; I was always curious about the story after reading Freud's interpretation of it in his essay &quot;The 'Uncanny.'&quot; ]]></body>
    
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