The Entail

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.