E T A Hoffmann studied law and entered the Prussian civil service, but his over-riding ambition was to become a graphic artist and painter. This selection of his finest short stories vividly demonstrates his intense imagination and preoccupation with the supernatural, placing him at the forefront of both surrealism and the modern horror genre.
Hoffmann is among the greatest and most popular of the German Romantics. This selection, while stressing the variety of his work, puts in the foreground those tales in which the real and the supernatural are brought into contact and conflict. The humour of these tales is a result of the incongruity of supernatural beings at large in an ostentatiously everyday world. They include The Golden Pot, recognized as Hoffmann's masterpiece by himself and posterity; its spine-chilling companion tale, The Sandman, which Offenbach drew on for his opera Tales of Hoffmann, and which Freud examines in his essay `The Uncanny'; two longer and more elaborate fantasies, set respectively in Germany and Italy; and the late story, My Cousin's Corner Window, which shows the powers of the imagination being applied to everyday urban life, and marks a transition in European literature generally from Romanticism to Realism. Ritchie Robertson's detailed introduction places the stories in their intellectual and historical context and explores their compelling narrative complexities.
Tomcat Murr is a loveable animal who has written his own autobiography. But a printer's error causes his story to be accidentally mixed with a book about the composer Johannes Kreisler. As the two versions break off, two different characters emerge from the confusion - Murr, the scholar, carouser and brawler, and the hypochondriac genius Kreisler.
E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776-1822) was perhaps one of the two or three greatest of all writers of fantasy. His wonderful tales, translated into many languages and adapted into numerous stage works, have delighted readers for a century and a half.They open our eyes to an extraordinary world of fantasy, poetry, and the supernatural. Remarkable characters come vividly to life. With exciting speed, Hoffmann moves from the firm ground of reality to ambiguity, mystery, and romance. His imaginativeness is unsurpassed, and his handling of allegory, symbolism, and mysticism is unusually skillful. These qualities make his tales some of the most stimulating and enjoyable in the world's literature. They can be read on many levels of enjoyment; as exciting fiction brilliantly told, as a fascinating statement of many of the major concerns of the Romantic era, and as a culmination of German Romantic literature.This collection contains ten of his best "The Golden Flower Pot," "Automata," "A New Year's Eve Adventure," "Nutcracker and the King of Mice," "The Sand-Man," "Rath Krespel," "Tobias Martin, Master Cooper, and His Men," "The Mines of Falun," "Signor Formica," and "The King's Betrothed."
Adaptation honnête, format pratique et présentation accrochante. [SDM].
Hoffmannova první kniha Na frekvenci čínské medicíny (KK 2002)se setkala s mimořádným zájmem čtenářů. V roce 2007 přichází s novou publikací, která čtenáře zavede k pramenům tradiční čínské medicíny, pomůže nalézt cestu, jak se zbavit nejrůznějších obtíží a neduhů, nabídne řadu receptů na zdravé, ale chutné pokrmy a neocenitelné rady, jak nalézt klid a přežít ve zdraví každodenní stresy.
Úvod do problematiky tradiční čínské medicíny. Seznamuje s používáním léčivých bylinných směsí, seznamuje s prevencí a péčí o zdraví .
Volné pokračování knihy Homeopatická věda. Kniha vykresluje možné obranné mechanismy a reakce organismu na homeopatickou léčbu včetně vysvětlení jejich významu. Poskytuje definice, podle nichž homeopat rozezná, zda se stav pacienta po podaném léku zlepšuje, a dokáže na jejich základě stanovit prognózu. Kniha také obsahuje četné rady, jež terapeutům a lékařům pomohou vyhodnotit hloubku a závažnost případu. Tento systém je klíčovou součástí homeopatické léčby, kterou by si měli osvojit všichni terapeuti věnující se homeopatii.
Dle klasické TCM (tradiční čínské medicíny) existuje několik málo Principů (kořenů nemoci), vícero Zákonitostí (obrazů nemoci) a tisíce Příznaků (projevů nemoci), s kterými pak pacienti přicházejí do ordinací. Klasická TCM vždy jde ke kořenům nemoci jako takové – a o tom je také, mimo jiné, tako třetí kniha MUDr. Petr Hoffmanna. Vše je v ní popisováno a vysvětlováno na jednoduchých a názorných příkladech, metaforách či podobenstvích z přírody, ze života a z praxe pro praxi. Součástí knihy je i přehledný katalog bylinných směsí s jednoduchým návodem pro každodenní použití.
One Christmas Eve in 19th-century Nuremberg Uncle Drosselmeyer arrives with presents for everyone and Clara gets a very special one: a nutcracker. That night the toys come alive and Clara discovers that her Nutcracker is much more than a toy. Together they go to the magic Land of Sweets and are greeted with a celebration with music and wonderful dances. But on Christmas morning there is another surprise for her...