The Master of the Fleas

"In a castle, by the fireplace, with a cup of steaming punch…" Perhaps this is how amazing stories, full of good wonders and terrible coincidences, were born in ancient times.
Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann (1776-1822) - a classic of German literature,... an unparalleled mystifier, a master of gripping plots. Hoffmann's fantastic tales and novellas are diverse and multifaceted, intertwining reality and mysticism, the beautiful and the frightening. The reader will delve into the microcosm of the master of the fleas, unravel the mystery of an abandoned house that, according to rumors, is inhabited by ghosts, learn the history of the curse of an ancient German castle, and become acquainted with the spirits of dark mines…
The edition is accompanied by works from book illustration masters Alexei Ilyich Kravchenko (1889-1940) and Hugo Steiner-Prag (1880-1945).