The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr

by E.T.A. Hoffmann

Tomcat Murr is a loveable, self-taught animal who has written his own autobiography. But a printer's error causes his story to be accidentally mixed and spliced with a book about the composer Johannes Kreisler. As the two versions break off and alternate at dramatic moments, two wildly different characters emerge from the confusion - Murr, the confident scholar, lover, carouser and brawler, and the moody, hypochondriac genius Kreisler. In his exuberant...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140446311
• ISBN13: 9780140446319
• Release Date: November 1999
• Publisher: Penguin Group
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 7.6"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher