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.
This eye-opening new volume presents two of the tale's earliest versions, both in new translations: E.T.A. But the story itself is much older and its original intent more complex.
It wasn't until the 1950s that seeing The Nutcracker at Christmastime became an American tradition.
The original stories behind everyone's favorite Christmas ballet
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