{"product_id":"the-nutcracker-and-the-mouse-king","title":"The Nutcracker and the Mouse King","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe girl is Marie. Clara is the name of her doll.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOrder this book\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/shop.ingramspark.com\/b\/084?params=k5fae1LFpzjJJeiS8qbkkgXjgQqVl1BTUq4hI2AGA9K\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003ePaperback from IngramSpark →\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/shop.ingramspark.com\/b\/084?params=V9X21iwHzqNrXJMQe2amA0jRMJ8JinDQzhRkJ1T6N0x\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eHardcover from IngramSpark →\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout this edition\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEverything the ballet is built on begins here, and almost none of it survives the journey. E. T. A. Hoffmann wrote this in 1816, for the children of a friend, and it is a stranger and sharper thing than the Christmas pageant it became.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA wooden nutcracker is given to a seven-year-old girl on Christmas Eve. That night the drawing room fills with mice, the toys arm themselves from the cupboard, and a war is fought across the floor by tin hussars, gingerbread men and sugar mice, against a Mouse King with seven heads and a taste for extortion. Marie is wounded by a pane of glass, and no one believes a word she says.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt the centre of the book stands the Story of the Hard Nut, which the ballet leaves out altogether. A queen's appetite for sausage begins a feud. A princess is turned hideous out of spite. An astronomer and a clockmaker search fifteen years for the one nut that can undo it, and the clockmaker's nephew is made wooden in the cracking of it. Godpapa Drosselmeier tells it over three evenings, and stops each time at the worst possible moment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat Tchaikovsky kept was the journey to the Kingdom of Sweets: the Candy Mead, the Marchpane Castle, Comfit Grove and the Christmas Wood. What he left behind is the reason the tale still unsettles. Nothing here is explained away as a dream, and the child who is right about everything is the one nobody listens to.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePrinted complete in Major Alexander Ewing's translation, with four wood engravings from the 1853 D. Appleton edition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eE. T. A. Hoffmann\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTranslated by Alexander Ewing\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSolocosmo Press\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Lightbound Library\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCover painting, Clara, by Jessica von Braun\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePaperback and hardcover, 6 × 9, 80 pages\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Solocosmo Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50144580206840,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0845\/2433\/5352\/files\/nutcracker-front.jpg?v=1786502228","url":"https:\/\/solocosmo.org\/products\/the-nutcracker-and-the-mouse-king","provider":"solocosmo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}