About The Book
Puffin Clothbound Classics are stunning collectable hardback editions of some of the best-loved classics in the world – including this charming edition of The Tale of the Nutcracker.
Enter a world of magic and enchantment with Dumas’s timeless adaptation of the Nutcracker story.
‘You foolish child, how can you imagine that this doll, which is composed of wood and cloth, can have life, motion and reflection?’
When little Marie receives a rather ugly doll for Christmas, she isn’t sure what to make of him. His head is far too large, his legs far too small; but he’s certainly excellently dressed! Things take a strange turn on Christmas Eve when, as the clocks strike midnight, the odd little Nutcracker comes to life to do fierce battle against the malevolent Mouse King and his armies.
Full of wonder, weirdness and fantasy, this adaptation, which inspired Tchaikovsky’s beloved ballet, is a celebration of childhood imagination, full of talking toys, candy kingdoms and dastardly mice.
About the Author
Alexander Dumas was born in 1802 at Villes-Cotterets. He received very little education but when he entered the household of the future king, Louis-Philippe, he began to read veraciously and then to write. In 1839 he began writing novels dealing with the wars of religion and the Revolution, but he is most remembered for his historical novels, The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers.
About the Puffin Clothbound Classics
Puffin Clothbound Classics are stunningly beautiful hardback editions of the most famous stories in the world. You can find all the titles here. The titles available in these editions are:
Black Beauty
The Secret Garden
A Christmas Carol
The Wizard of Oz
Treasure Island
Dracula
The Little Prince
Tales from Shakespeare
Frankenstein
Charlotte’s Web
Tales of the Greek Heroes
Wuthering Heights
Stig of the Dump
The Dark is Rising
Grimms’ Fairytales
Hans Christian Anderson’s Fairytales
Watership Down
The Neverending Story
David Copperfield
Little Women
Chinese Cinderella
The Jungle Book
Peter Pan
The Railway Children
The Worst Witch
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
The Great Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
The Wind in the Willows
The Call of the Wild
The Tale of the Nutcracker
