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Nutcracker and Mouse-King (1853)
by E. T. A. Hoffmann, translated by Mrs. St. Simon
Chapter 1
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"The Nutcracker and the Mouse King" (German: Nussknacker und Mausekönig) is a story written in 1816 by Prussian author E. T. A. Hoffmann, in which young Marie Stahlbaum's favourite Christmas toy, the Nutcracker, comes alive and, after defeating the evil Mouse King in battle, whisks her away to a magical kingdom populated by dolls. In 1892, the Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and choreographers Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov turned Alexandre Dumas's adaptation of the story into the ballet The Nutcracker.

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NUTCRACKER AND MOUSE-KING.

TRANSLATED

FROM THE GERMAN OF HOFFMAN,

BY
MRS. ST. SIMON.

With Illustrations on Wood.

NEW-YORK:
D. APPLETON & COMPANY, 200 BROADWAY.
1853.

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THE NUT-CRACKER

Chapters (not listed in original)

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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1852, by

D. APPLETON & CO.,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New-York.

 This work is a translation and has a separate copyright status to the applicable copyright protections of the original content.

Original:

This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.

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Translation:

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