The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr (Penguin Classics)
by E.T.A. HoffmannSign in to Goodreads to see your friends' reviews of this book.
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Read in February, 2008
I am so glad I picked up this book (enticed by the cover engraving of the handsome titular cat). Murr will make you laugh out loud. Highlights were his encounters with Ponto the poodle, especially their first meeting. The other story, about the composer Kreisler, was not as immediately accessible but soon pulled me in. It's really a pretty amazing technical feat for Hoffman to have pulled together these two stories that are so different in tone in such a way that they're pretty much equally ...more
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