Nutcracker and Mouse King and The Tale of the Nutcracker
E. T. A. Hoffmann, Alexandre Dumas
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Release Date: 30/10/2007
Genre: Fiction
Translator: Joachim Neugroschel
Label: Penguin Classics
Contributors: Jack Zipes (Introduction by), Joachim Neugroschel (Translated by)
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
A fairy tale of a young girl's magical dream, filled with stories with dark undertone.
E. T. A. Hoffman's "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King (1816)" is a fairy tale of a young girl's magical dream, filled with stories with dark undertone. In 1844, Dumas adapted the tale as a children's story, which is now well known as a ballet, choreographed by Marius Petipas with Tchaikovsky's music.