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Nutcracker and Mouse King

Nutcracker and Mouse King

Hoffmann, E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus), 1776-1822, author.
Book 2007

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 Alexandr...

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ISBN:
9780143104834
0143104837
Description:
xxxiii, 155 pages ; 20 cm
Other Title:
Tale of the nutcracker
Notes:
2 books in 1
"Translated by Joachim Neugroschel ; introduction by Jack Zipes."
Includes bibliographical references
LCCN:
2006053166
Control Number:
2595688
Other Authors:
Neugroschel, Joachim, translator
Zipes, Jack, 1937- writer of introduction
translation of: Dumas, Alexandre, 1802-1870. Histoire d'un casse-noisette. English
translation of: Hoffmann, E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus), 1776-1822. Nussknacker und Mausekönig. English
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