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Nutcracker and Mouse King and the Tale Of the Nutcracker
[Paperback - 2007]
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Category: Fiction
Sub-category: Classics
Additional Category: General Fiction - Mythological Fiction
Publisher: Penguin Classics | ISBN: 9780143104834 | Pages: 192
Shipping Weight: .159 | Dimensions: 5.15 x .55 x 7.75 inches

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The original stories behind everyone's favorite Christmas ballet

It wasn't until the 1950s that seeing The Nutcracker at Christmastime became an American tradition. But the story itself is much older and its original intent more complex. This eye-opening new volume presents two of the tale's earliest versions, both in new translations: E.T.A. Hoffmann's Nutcracker and Mouse King (1816), in which a young girl is whisked away to the Land of Toys to help her animated nutcracker defeat the Mouse King, and Alexandre Dumas's 1845 adaptation, The Tale of the Nutcracker, based on Hoffmann's popular work. Irresistible tales of magic, mystery, and childhood adventure, these timeless delights and fresh interpretations about the importance of imagination will captivate readers of all ages.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

About the Author

Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann, better known by his pen name E. T. A. Hoffmann (Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann), was a German Romantic author of fantasy and horror, a jurist, composer, music critic, draftsman and caricaturist. His stories form the basis of Jacques Offenbach's famous operaThe Tales of Hoffmann, in which Hoffman appears (heavily fictionalized) as the hero. He is also the author of the novellaThe Nutcracker and the Mouse King, on which the famous balletThe Nutcrackeris based. The balletCoppéliais based on two other stories that Hoffmann wrote, while Schumann'sKreislerianais based on Hoffmann's character Johannes Kreisler.Hoffmann's stories were very influential during the 19th century, and he is one of the major authors of the Romantic movement.

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