Hoffmann fairy tales

Author: (German) Wilhelm Hauff
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Publish Date: 2005-06-21
Features: Hauff was a great German fairy tale writer in the 19th century. His fairy tales celebrate truth, goodness, and beauty, and praise beautiful emotions, while fiercely condemning ugliness, hypocrisy, and cruelty. Cold Heart is a representative work of Hauff's fairy tales. The entire fairy tale is profound in meaning, vivid, and readable, and is believed to be loved by young readers. Hauff (1802–1827) was a great writer, a German who belonged to children, and his world belonged to all children. In his world, there are monkeys who become British gentlemen, strange ships that make people feel odd, and the little wooden figure with a long nose, and there are many more things! Please step into Hauff's fairy tales. Here, you will make friends with many, many people. Hauff disliked bad people and sympathized with all the weak. He encouraged those who were strong and brave. Hauff died very, very young, leaving behind many fairy tales for children. This is a precious treasure. We miss Hauff, and the fairy tales he wrote with his life have become sunshine and air, surrounding us, making us feel how wonderful life is! Cold Heart is Hauff's masterpiece and a famous fairy tale in the world. The young charcoal burner Peter envied the "respectable" life of those who lived without working and spent money freely, despising his own profession. He sold his heart to the embodiment of greed and cruelty—the evil forest god Michael, in exchange for a large amount of gold and a stone heart. He became a rich man, lending money at high interest rates, driving people to the brink of despair, even letting his dogs bite the poor, driving away his elderly and frail mother, and even killing his beautiful and kind wife, just because she gave a piece of bread to a passerby. In this excessive obsession with money, he became a person of great sin! The stone heart did not feel sad, nor did it feel happy. It did not feel any of the beautiful things in the world. Although Peter was very rich, he could only live a lonely, dull, and empty life. Finally, he could no longer bear the immense pain and torment brought by money. With the help of the kind forest god, the Glass Old Man, he reclaimed his living heart. In his sincere repentance, his wife was resurrected, and his mother forgave him. From then on, he began a steady life as a charcoal burner, winning the respect of everyone through his labor. Several of Hauff's fairy tales are adapted from folk tales in the Arab world. Children, when you are still growing up, fairy tales are the way you express yourself with your heart, a beautiful way. As we read fairy tales, we also feel the breath of growing up, feel how maturity becomes harmonious and life becomes beautiful as this slowly enters our hearts. Hauff lived for only twenty-something years before he passed away. His life did not lose its brilliance because of its brevity. In a sense, his life is eternal. He created for us that enduring beauty, created the lasting emotions in the hearts of children, which will never be lost. Let us, make everything around us clear and transparent. Let us praise truth, goodness, and beauty, praise pure love, praise all gentle and kind feelings. Let us, make a fierce condemnation of the most hypocritical and evil things in the world, until we discard these things.