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The Nutcracker and the King of Mice

by E. T. A. Hoffmann

  • First published:
  • 19th century
  • Languages: English, German, Russian, Yiddish
  • Content type: FictionJuvenile

Young Marie Stahlbaum falls in love with the handsome nutcracker Godfather Drosselmeier gives her family as a Christmas gift, and has adventures with him as he faces the monstrous, seven-headed Mouse King.

Provenance

Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Legendary beings and transformations and Mythology, folklore, and sacred legends.

  • Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary-historical matched “Fairies”.

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  • Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary-historical matched “Fairy tales” and “Tales”. Retained metadata contains “Fairy tales” in the subject metadata and “Tales” in the subject metadata.

    • “Fairy tales”· via Open Library
    • “Tales”· via Open Library
    • “Fairy tales”· in subject
    • “Tales”· in subject

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Editions

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Nutcracker and Mouse-king

1853D. Appleton & CompanyEnglish, German—Public

Subjects

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