The Nutcracker

The book presents the fairy tale novella by the famous German Romantic writer Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King". The text is provided in a translation edited by Z. A. Vershinina. The edition is adorned with illustrations by the French artist Charles d'Arnou (1820–1882), who worked under the pseudonym Bertal, and the Czech artist Artuš Šajner (1863–1938).