Love on the surface and a beckoning queen in the deep pull a young sailor-turned-miner toward a fatal choice in one of the most beautiful tales in all of German Romanticism.First published in 1819 and later gathered into The Serapion Brethren, The Mines of Falun draws on a true Swedish mining tragedy to tell of Elis Frobom, torn between his living bride and the glittering, otherworldly summons of the underground. Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann (1776 - 1822), jurist, composer, and one of Romanticism's defining voices, turns geology into myth and desire into doom.Read & Co. Books is honoured to return this beloved Romantic tale to print in a beautiful keepsake edition.
Love on the surface and a beckoning queen in the deep pull a young sailor-turned-miner toward a fatal choice in one of the most beautiful tales in all of German Romanticism.First published in 1819 and later gathered into The Serapion Brethren, The Mines of Falun draws on a true Swedish mining tragedy to tell of Elis Frobom, torn between his living bride and the glittering, otherworldly summons of the underground. Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann (1776 - 1822), jurist, composer, and one of Romanticism's defining voices, turns geology into myth and desire into doom.Read & Co. Books is honoured to return this beloved Romantic tale to print in a beautiful keepsake edition.
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