On June 1824, The Devil’s Elixir was published. E. T. A. Hoffmann’s doppelgänger novel of 1816 appears in an English translation by R. P. Gillies. Image: Portrait of Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann, c. 1822. Gallery: Berlin, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Nationalgalerie, A II 920. This image is in the public domain in the United States because its copyright has expired.

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