Nutcracker and the Mouse King
E. T. A. Hoffmann It wasn't until the 1950s that seeing The Nutcracker at Christmas time 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...