The King's Bride
Happily engaged to the poet Amandus, Fraulein Anna is horrified to discover that a beautiful ring, mysteriously deposited upon her finger whilst tending her kitchen garden, forces her into marriage with the gnome Corduanspitz. Can Anna find any way of removing the ring? Will her poet lover shake off his passive demeanour and come to her aid? And has Corduanspitz truly reli...more
Paperback, 107 pages
Published
January 1st 2010
by Oneworld Classics
(first published 1988)
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Super enjoyable German Romantic story of a woman who loves vegetables, is engaged to a terrible poet, and gets tricked by a gnome.
This is a very amusing story, a fairytale for grown-ups.
Jenny
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Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann, 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. He is the subject and hero of Jacques Offenbach's famous but fictional opera The Tales of Hoffmann, and the author of the novelette The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, on which...more
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