The King's Betrothed

By E.T.A. Hoffmann

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 nnchen is wooed by the absurd carrot-king Daucus Carota and rescued by wit and good humour. Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann (1776 - 1822), the K nigsberg-born jurist and composer, wrote some of the most inventive and playful tales of the nineteenth century.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1447465709
• ISBN13: 9781447465706
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: Read & Co. Classics
• Length: 84 Pages
• Weight: 0.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.5" x 8.5"