This Christmas they receive a nutcracker (Maria becomes its caretaker). Louise, Fred and Maria receive wondrous gifts from Godfather Drosselmeier every Christmas. Hoffmann’s The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, the basis for Tchaikovsky’s ballet, tells two stories: Maria’s adventures with the nutcracker and how Young Master Drosselmeier became the nutcracker. This edition includes 20 illustrations by Artuš Scheiner and Ludwig Willem Reymert Wenckebach.Į.T.A.
The Nutcracker is a Christmas story about a little girl named Maria and her wooden doll, the Nutcracker, who becomes alive to fight the evil seven-headed Mouse King.
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