E. T. A. Hoffmann, Hans Christian Andersen

The Nutcracker and the Mouse King and The Snow Queen - Two Holiday Classics! (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Theis, Kevin

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Presented here are two holiday classics: E.T.A. Hoffmann's "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King" (which formed the basis for the Christmas ballet "The Nutcracker") and Hans Christian Andersen's "The Snow Queen," (upon which Disney's "Frozen" is based).

First, we meet young Marie, young girl who is given a precious nutcracker as a Christmas present by her godfather, the enigmatic Drosselmeier. When the nutcracker is broken, Marie attempts to repair it and stays up late to tend to her new toy, but when the nursery is invaded by an army of mice - led by the seven-headed Mouse King - the nutcracker comes to life to both drive off the mice and escort Marie to a magical land of living dolls.

Then, in "The Snow Queen," we are introduced to childhood friends Gerda and Kay, whose relationship is shattered when Kay is infected by dark magic and disappears, spirited up to the Snow Queen's palace in the sky.

These two holiday classics are presented in their original and unabridged format.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Ft. Raphael Publishing Company
• Seitenzahl: 120
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Oktober 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798892822237
• Artikelnr.: 75600873

Autorenporträt

E.T.A. Hoffmann (1776-1822) was a German jurist, composer, artist and Romantic author of fantasy and Gothic horror. A number of later works - including two ballets and an opera - were adapted from his works, most notably "The Nutcracker" by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, which is based upon Hoffmann's "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King" and has gone on to become one of the most popular ballets in history. While Hoffmann was educated for a career in the law and government - which he pursued for much of his young life - he was drawn to writing, drawing and literature and eventually wound up running several theatres, sometimes contributing his own work. But his literary output was hardly limited to the stage. Hoffmann wrote short stories, operas, novellas, lyrics and even composed his own music. A leading writer of the Romanticism movement, his taste for the dark and macabre influenced many writers, including Edgar Allan Poe, Nikolai Gogol, Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Franz Kafka. In 1881, composer Jacques Offenbach wrote an opera fantastique called "The Tales of Hoffmann" in which a heavily fictionalized Hoffmann presents three of his short stories. Towards the end of his life, Hoffmann was plagued by legal disputes, ill-health, alcoholism and an advanced case of syphilis, which finally took his life in Berlin in 1822 at the age of forty-six.