RO: Acest volum este o reproducere după: Wilhelm Hauff, Sämtliche Werke in Sechs Bänden [Opera completă în şase volume], Band V [volumul 5], Max Hesse Verlag [editura Max Hesse], Leipzig.
Basmele cuprinse în această ediţie sunt: - CARAVANA, - Povestea califului barză, - Povestea vasului nălucă, - Povestea mâinii tăiate, - Cum a scăpat Fatmé, - Muc cel mic, - Povestea despre prinţul cel neadevărat, - ŞEICUL DIN ALEXANDRIA ŞI ROBII LUI, - Piticul Nas-Lung, - Tânărul englez, - Povestea lui Almansor, - HANUL DIN SPESSART, - Legenda guldenului cu cap de cerb, - Inimă rece (partea întâi), - Povestea lui Said, - Grota din Steenfoll, - Inimă rece (partea a doua).
EN: This volume is a rendition of: Wilhelm Hauff, Sämtliche Werke in Sechs Bänden [Complete Works in Six Volumes], Band V [volume 5], Max Hesse Verlag [Max Hesse publishing house], Leipzig.
The fairy tales comprised in this edition are: - THE CARAVAN, - The Story of the Caliph Stork, - The Story of the Haunted Ship, - The Story of the Cut-off Hand, - Fatme's Deliverance, - The Story of Little Muck, - The Story of the False Prince, - THE SHEIK OF ALEXANDRIA AND HIS SLAVES, - The Dwarf Long Nose, - The Young Englishman, - The Story of Almansor, - THE INN IN THE SPESSART, - The Hirsch-Gulden (a.k.a. The Story of the Stag-Florin), - Cold Heart (Part 1), - Said's Adventures , - The Cavern of Steenfoll, - The Cold Heart (Part 2).
Wilhelm Hauff was a German poet and novelist best known for his fairy tales.
Educated at the University of Tübingen, Hauff worked as a tutor and in 1827 became editor of J.F. Cotta’s newspaper Morgenblatt. Hauff had a narrative and inventive gift and sense of form; he wrote with ease, combining narrative themes of others with his own. His work shows a pleasant, often spirited, wit. There is a strong influence of E.T.A. Hoffmann in his fantasy Mitteilungen aus den Memoiren des Satans (1826–27; “Pronouncements from the Memoirs of Satan”). Hauff’s Lichtenstein (1826), a historical novel of 16th-century Württemberg, was one of the first imitations of Sir Walter Scott. He is also known for a number of fairy tales that were published in his Märchenalmanach auf das Jahr 1826 and had lasting popularity. Similar volumes followed in 1827 and 1828. His novellas, which were collected posthumously in Novellen, 3 vol. (1828), include Jud Süss (The Jew Suss; serialized 1827).