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The Entail - cover

The Entail

E. T. A. Hoffmann

Publisher: Caelwick Press

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The Entail by E. T. A. Hoffmann is offered here in a clean English digital edition prepared for fluent ebook reading. The work stands within classics and gives modern readers direct access to a public-domain classic with navigable structure and a restrained typographic presentation. The opening pages establish the book's atmosphere with this first movement: Not far from the shore of the Baltic Sea is situated the ancestral castle of the noble family Von R—— called R— sitten. It is a wild and desolate neighborhood, hardly anything more than a single blade of grass shooting up here and there from the bottomless drift-sand; and instead of the garden that This edition is suited to readers who want a reliable, uncluttered version of the text for study, rediscovery, and sustained reading.
Available since: 06/06/2026.
Print length: 118 pages.

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