![]() ![]() ![]() However, in his late teens Hoffman became increasingly interested in literature and philosophy, and spent much of his time reading German classicists and attending lectures by, amongst others, Immanuel Kant. ![]() Hoffmann's family were all jurists, and during his youth he was initially encouraged to pursue a career in law. Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann (1776 - 1822) was born in Königsberg, East Prussia. A true Christmas classic, perfect for festive bedtime reading for adults and children a-like. Probably Hoffman's most well-known story, produced in 1816, due to the fact that - some seventy-six years later - it inspired Tchaikovsky's ballet "The Nutcracker". Hoffmann, "The Nutcracker and the Mouse-King" is the magical adventure of Marie Stahlbaum's favourite toy, the Nutcracker, who battles the nefarious Mouse-King in battle and takes the reader on a wonderful adventure, into a magical land of dolls. ![]()
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