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{{short description|1816–1817 story collection by E. T. A. Hoffmann}}
{{Infobox book
| name = Night Pieces
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| caption = Title page of the first volume, 1816
| author = [[E. T. A. Hoffmann]]
| title_orig = Nachtstücke
| orig_lang_code = de
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| country = [[Kingdom of Prussia|Prussia]]
| language = German
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| publisher = {{ill|Verlag Georg Reimer|de}}
| pub_date = {{ubl|
* September 1816 (vol.1 )
* summer 1817 (vol. 2)
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| pages = 695
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'''''Night Pieces''''' ({{langx|de|Nachtstücke}}) is a collection of eight stories by the Prussian writer [[E. T. A. Hoffmann]], published in two volumes in 1816 and 1817.<ref>{{Cite book |year=1997 |chapter=Nachtstücke |editor-last=Henry Burnand |editor-first=Garland |editor-last2=Garland |editor-first2=Mary |title=The Oxford Companion to German Literature |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |isbn=0191727415 }}</ref>

==Contents==
'''First volume'''
* "[[The Sandman (short story)|The Sandman]]" (Der Sandmann)
* "[[Ignaz Denner]]"
* "{{ill|The Jesuit Church at Glogau|de|Die Jesuiterkirche in G.}}" (Die Jesuiterkirche in G.)
* "{{ill|The Sanctus|de|Das Sanctus}}" (Das Sanctus)

'''Second volume'''
* "[[The Deserted House (Hoffmann)|The Deserted House]]" (Das öde Haus)
* "{{ill|The Entail|de|Das Majorat}}" (Das Majorat)
* "{{ill|The Vow (short story)|lt=The Vow|de|Das Gelübde}}" (Das Gelübde)
* "{{ill|The Agate Heart|de|Das steinerne Herz}}" (Das steinerne Herz)

==Publication==
Hoffmann began to work on ''Night Pieces'' in November 1815. It followed the model established with his previous collection ''[[Fantasy Pieces in Callot's Manner]]'' (1814–1815) and was presented on the title page as "published by the author of Fantasy Pieces in Callot's Manner" ({{langx|de|link=no|herausgegeben von dem Verfaßer der Fantasiestücke in Callots Manier}}). It was published by {{ill|Verlag Georg Reimer|de}} in Berlin. The first volume appeared in September 1816—with 1817 printed as its year—and the second in the summer of 1817.<ref name=":0">{{cite book |last=Weitin |first=Thomas |year=2009 |chapter=''Nachtstücke'' (1816/17) |editor-last=Kremer |editor-first=Detlef |title=[[E.T.A. Hoffmann. Leben – Werk – Wirkung]] |language=de |location=Berlin, New York |publisher=Walter de Gruyter |pages=161–168 |isbn=978-3-11-018382-5 }}</ref>

==Reception==
Although ''Fantasy Pieces in Callot's Manner'' had been successful, ''Night Pieces'' was largely ignored among Germans upon the publication. The first volume received a single, negative review in ''[[Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung]]'' and the second received no printed reviews. In private correspondences, {{ill|Heinrich Voß|de|Heinrich Voß (Philologe)}} praised "The Sandman" as an inspired story but dismissed the rest of the collection for its "shudder and horror", and [[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]] assumed it was a result of [[opium]] abuse. ''Night Pieces'' received a much more positive reception in Russia and France. Several of the individual stories eventually attracted significant analysis and "The Sandman" became one of Hoffmann's most famous works.<ref name=":0" />

==References==
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==External links==
* {{wikisourcelang-inline|de|Nachtstücke}}

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