Hoffman went on to produce a great range of both literary and musical works. 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 K�nigsberg, 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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