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Автор: E.T.A.Hoffmann
Год: 1970
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Издание J. M. Dent
Страниц: 64
ISBN: [не указан]
The story is about the jealousy of Swanilda, a village girl in Galicia, whose sweetheart, Franz, begins to pay attention to a pretty girl usually to be seen on Dr Coppelius's balcony. Swanilda and her friends mischievously get into Coppelius's house and discover that the mysterious girl is only a clockwork doll. When Coppelius chases the girls away Swanilda hides behind the doll. In Hoffmann's story - the version in this book - Swanilda sees the magician Coppelius bring the doll to life by giving her Franz's spirit. But in the ballet, Swanilda, realizing Coppelius's fatal purpose, tricks him by impersonating the doll herself. For everyone but the old man, the ballet ends joyfully.
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