The Nutcracker and the Mouse King
E. T. A. Hoffmann
The Nutcracker and the Mouse King
On Christmas Eve, Marie falls in love with a funny wooden nutcracker. When he comes alive to fight the seven-headed Mouse King, she helps him, and he takes her to a magical kingdom made of sweets.
- 8 chapters
- Illustrated
- Read aloud
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How the story begins
Chapter 1: Christmas Eve
On Christmas Eve, in a tall old house in a German town, a girl named Marie and her brother Fritz waited outside the parlour door. At last a little bell rang, the doors flew open, and there stood the Christmas tree, glowing with candles and hung with golden apples and sugar sweets.
Chapters in this story
- 1.Christmas Eve
- 2.The Battle at Midnight
- 3.The Tale of the Hard Nut
- 4.Seven Little Crowns
- 5.Through the Wardrobe
- 6.The Marzipan Castle
- 7.Home Again
- 8.The Spell Is Broken
