Quote of the day
Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
E. T. A. Hoffmann
Born: January 24, 1776
Died: June 25, 1822 (aged 46)
Bio: Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann was a Prussian Romantic author of fantasy and horror, a jurist, composer, music critic, draftsman and caricaturist.
Known for:
- The Sandman (1816)
- Nutcracker (1816)
- The Golden Pot (1814)
- The Devil's Elixirs (1815)
- The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr (1818)