Chance meetings, a veiled beauty, and the small mysteries of city living come together in this warm, wistful sketch of youth from a great teller of Romantic stories.Drawn from The Serapion Brethren and first published in 1818, A Fragment from the Life of Three Friends follows a set of young companions in Berlin whose paths cross around a mysterious woman and a string of curious coincidences. Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann (1776 - 1822), the German Romantic jurist, composer, and critic, shows here his lighter, more observant side, alert to the comedy and melancholy of ordinary lives.Read & Co. Books is delighted to republish this evocative tale in a beautiful new edition for admirers of Romantic storytelling.
Chance meetings, a veiled beauty, and the small mysteries of city living come together in this warm, wistful sketch of youth from a great teller of Romantic stories.Drawn from The Serapion Brethren and first published in 1818, A Fragment from the Life of Three Friends follows a set of young companions in Berlin whose paths cross around a mysterious woman and a string of curious coincidences. Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann (1776 - 1822), the German Romantic jurist, composer, and critic, shows here his lighter, more observant side, alert to the comedy and melancholy of ordinary lives.Read & Co. Books is delighted to republish this evocative tale in a beautiful new edition for admirers of Romantic storytelling.
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