E. T. A. Hoffmann: The Court of King Arthur / The Mines of Falun. Two Stories. The Court of King Arthur: First published in Urania. Pocket Book for Ladies for the Year 1817. The Mines of Falun: First published in The Serapion Brethren, Volume One, February 1819. Complete new edition with a biography of the author. Edited by Karl-Maria Guth. Berlin 2015. The text basis is the edition: E. T. A. Hoffmann: Poetic Works in Six Volumes, Volume 3, Berlin: Aufbau, 1963. The pagination of the above edition is included in this new edition as a marginal note with exact line references. Cover design by Thomas Schultz-Overhage using the image: Vincent van Gogh, Miners in the Snow, 1882. Set in Minion Pro, 11 pt. About the Author: Born in 1776 in Königsberg with the names Ernst Theodor Wilhelm, he later calls himself Ernst Theodor Amadeus in honor of Mozart, or simply E. T. A. Hoffmann. He studies law in.