Hoffmann's story was re-written by Alexandre Dumas, who lightened the tone somewhat and smoothed out some of the original tale's rougher edges.
As the story unfolds, the little girl comes to believe that the Nutcracker - ruler of a fantasy land made of candy and sweets - is really the nephew of her doting Godfather cursed to exist in a wooden form until he is set free by true love. Hoffmann, and featured the story of a young girl who finds herself caught in a battle between a wooden nutcracker and a seven-headed Mouse King. "Nutcracker was very pale, but he beamed so ruefully and amiably that his smile shot right through her heart."īased on folk tales from Bohemia, Poland and Muscovy, the original fairy tale "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King" was written over 200 years ago in 1816 by Prussian author E.T.A.
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