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The King's Betrothed
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781447465706
Publisher: Read & Co. Classics
Published: Nov 9 2012
Pages: 84
Weight: 0.26
Height: 0.20 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
A dreamy young woman finds herself betrothed to a preposterous gnome who rules an underground kingdom of vegetables, in The King's Betrothed - a gloriously comic fairy tale from a master of German Romanticism.
Published in 1821 in The Serapion Brethren, this sparkling satire pokes affectionate fun at Romantic pretension, as the sensible Ännchen is wooed by the absurd carrot-king Daucus Carota and rescued by wit and good humour. Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann (1776 - 1822), the Königsberg-born jurist and composer, wrote some of the most inventive and playful tales of the nineteenth century.
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