In a story by this author, a character drops a sock that she's knitting as she listens to her fiancé recite a love poem, then begs him to throw the poem into a fire.
A character created by this author stops believing in the supernatural and hears the speech of birds as mere chatter, after which he blots a manuscript and is imprisoned in a crystal bottle. In a story by this author, a character drops a sock that she's knitting as she listens to her fiancé recite a love poem, then begs him to throw the poem into a fire. The phrase "pretty eyes, pretty eyes" is repeated by a barometer-seller in that story by this author and reminds Nathaniel of a figure who steals the eyes of children who don't go to bed. In a novella by this author of the collection Night Pieces, the clockmaker Drosselmeier creates a toy that defends Marie from a seven-headed rodent. For 10 points, name this German author of "The Sandman" and The Nutcracker and the Mouse King.
A character created by this author stops believing in the supernatural and hears the speech of birds as mere chatter, after which he blots a manuscript and is imprisoned in a crystal bottle.
E. T. A. Hoffmann [or Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann] &lt;Short Fiction&gt;