The Nutcracker

Name: The Nutcracker
Author: E. T. A. Hoffmann
ISBN: 9781910833322

Author: E. T. A. Hoffmann
Series: Children's Classics
Language: English
Length: 64 pages
ISBN: 9781910833322
Published: 15 August 2015
Imprint: Sovereign

Nutcracker
fairy tale
children
magic
bedtime
stories
folklore
fairies
family
society

All titles

Description

On Christmas Eve, the children of Doctor Stahlbaum were not allowed into the family room, let alone the adjoining living room. Evening had come, and Fritz and Marie Stahlbaum sat huddled in a corner. As was usual on Christmas Eve, no-one had brought in a light, and so they sat in an eerie darkness.

Author

E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776–1822) was a German Romantic author, composer, and critic whose tales blur the line between reality and nightmare with elegant precision. The Nutcracker, The Sandman, and Mademoiselle de Scuderi reveal a world where art, desire, and madness reflect one another. Hoffmann influenced Poe, Baudelaire, Freud, and the whole tradition of uncanny literature. His fiction is witty, unsettling, and still startlingly modern.

More by E. T. A. Hoffmann