Alexandre Dumas 2 hr 58 min read

On Christmas Eve, a little wooden Nutcracker comes to life to battle the Mouse King, and tells the wondrous tale of the hard nut Krakatuk and the Princess Pirlipate.

Alexandre Dumas's 1845 retelling of Hoffmann's 'Nutcracker' is a charming French version of the beloved Christmas fantasy, the basis for the famous ballet. Warm, magical, enchanting. Read it for the classic tale of the Nutcracker's midnight adventures, in Dumas's graceful French prose.

In its time

Published in 1845, during the 1840s, mystery, mesmerism, and the proto-scientific tale in the age of poe and gautier.

Reading it

2 hr 58 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).