The Elementary Spirit

By E.T.A. Hoffmann

A restless young officer, a book of forbidden lore, and a beautiful being of the elements cast a spell of longing and dread in this bewitching flight of dark enchantment.

One of Hoffmann's late fantastical tales, The Elementary Spirit (Der Elementargeist) tells of a soldier drawn by an occult manuscript into the arms of an alluring elemental being, with his very soul at stake. Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann (1776 - 1822), the German Romantic jurist, composer, and critic, drew on old alchemical and Rosicrucian lore to conjure one of his most seductive and unsettling visions.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1447465652
• ISBN13: 9781447465652
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: Read & Co. Classics
• Length: 62 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 5.5" x 8.5"