E. T. A. Hoffmann 1 hr 32 min read

On Christmas Eve, a little wooden Nutcracker comes to life to lead his toy soldiers against the seven-headed Mouse King, and carries a girl into a wondrous fairy realm.

This Finnish edition presents E. T. A. Hoffmann's 1816 'The Nutcracker and the Mouse King,' the classic Christmas fantasy behind the ballet. Magical, strange, enchanting. Read it for the original tale of the Nutcracker's midnight war and the dream-kingdom beyond, in Finnish.

In its time

Published in 1816, during the 1810s, frankenstein's decade.

Reading it

1 hr 32 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).