Excerpt from Tales From History: Historische Erzahlungen NO apology is necessary for introducing a selection from Hoffmann's Tales from H 231077. The pure and easy style, the impressive and pathetic descriptions, the well-sustained interest, combined with the author's power of enlisting the sympathy of his readers, are in themselves suflicient excuses for their publication. In addition to this, being short and independent of\ one another, in schools where but little time is devoted to the language, the necessity of breaking off in the middle of a Tale at the end of the term will be obviated. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.