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A modernization of an old and celebrated art fairy tale (Kunstmärchen) by the German Gothic storyteller, E.T.A. Hoffmann. As its title suggests, THE GOLDEN A FAIRY TALE FOR OUR TIME is a modernization of an old and celebrated art fairy tale (Kunstm‰rchen) by the German Gothic storyteller, E.T.A. Hoffmann. It is a comic novel for children of all ages and tells the story of graduate student Anselm MacGregor, as he braves the perils of a spiritual journey from ignorance to enlightenment. The tale is set in the concrete jungle of the New Jersey/New York metropolitan area of today, a most unlikely, yet fascinating, locale for fairytale doings. Young Anselm, a penurious Ph.D. candidate in English literature at Empyrean U., lives on peanut butter sandwiches and is only too happy to take a parttime job transcribing old manuscripts in arcane languages to the computer for John Lindhurst, a local archivist. This becomes his psychospiritual apprenticeship, an ordeal involving him in many treacherous trials, including imprisonment in a glass bottle and the lures of two beautiful women who compete, at times necromantically, for his love. Fiction.
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The Golden Pot, Dennis McCort
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- Released
- 2022
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- Title
- The Golden Pot
- Subtitle
- A Fairytale for Our Time
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Dennis McCort
- Publisher
- PalmArtPress
- Released
- 2022
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 300
- ISBN10
- 396258109X
- ISBN13
- 9783962581091
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Themes
- Rating
- 5 out of 5
- Description
- A modernization of an old and celebrated art fairy tale (Kunstmärchen) by the German Gothic storyteller, E.T.A. Hoffmann. As its title suggests, THE GOLDEN A FAIRY TALE FOR OUR TIME is a modernization of an old and celebrated art fairy tale (Kunstm‰rchen) by the German Gothic storyteller, E.T.A. Hoffmann. It is a comic novel for children of all ages and tells the story of graduate student Anselm MacGregor, as he braves the perils of a spiritual journey from ignorance to enlightenment. The tale is set in the concrete jungle of the New Jersey/New York metropolitan area of today, a most unlikely, yet fascinating, locale for fairytale doings. Young Anselm, a penurious Ph.D. candidate in English literature at Empyrean U., lives on peanut butter sandwiches and is only too happy to take a parttime job transcribing old manuscripts in arcane languages to the computer for John Lindhurst, a local archivist. This becomes his psychospiritual apprenticeship, an ordeal involving him in many treacherous trials, including imprisonment in a glass bottle and the lures of two beautiful women who compete, at times necromantically, for his love. Fiction.