The Nutcracker and the King of Mice

Name: The Nutcracker and the King of Mice
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Author: E. T. A. Hoffmann
ISBN: 9780545037730

by E. T. A. Hoffmann

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62 pages2009Orchard BooksISBN 9780545037730

Fairy talesBalletsStories, plotsChildren's fiction Classic Literature FictionKhoikhoi (African people)Description and travelChildren's stories, GermanChristmas storiesJuvenile fictionChristmasFiction, fantasy, historical Alice (fictitious character : carroll), fictionMonologues with music (Piano, 4 hands)Texts

About this book

Young Marie Stahlbaum falls in love with the handsome nutcracker Godfather Drosselmeier gives her family as a Christmas gift, and has adventures with him as he faces the monstrous, seven-headed Mouse King.

Publication Details

Publisher: Orchard Books
Published: 2009
Pages: 62
ISBN: 9780545037730
Language: en

About E. T. A. Hoffmann

Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann was a German Romantic author of fantasy and Gothic horror, a jurist, composer, music critic and artist. His stories form the basis of Jacques Offenbach's opera The Tales of Hoffmann, in which Hoffmann appears (heavily fictionalized) as the hero. He is also the author of the novella The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, on which Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcracker is based. The ballet Coppélia is based on two other stories that Hoffmann wrote, while Schumann's Kreisleriana is based on Hoffmann's character Johannes Kreisler.