E. T. A. Hoffmann 1 hr 48 min read

A dreamy student stumbles into a hidden world of elemental spirits, a fairy serpent, and a golden vase, reality and enchantment interpenetrating.

This Dutch translation of E. T. A. Hoffmann's 1814 'The Golden Pot' presents his masterpiece of German Romantic fantasy, in which the everyday and the magical are woven inextricably together. A landmark of the fantastic. Read it for one of the founding works of literary fantasy, strange and shimmering.

In its time

Published in 1814, during the 1810s, frankenstein's decade.

Reading it

1 hr 48 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).