Order from a Major Online Bookstore
Ultimate Book Price Comparison Engine
Save Your Time And Money
| AnyBook4Less.com | Order from a Major Online Bookstore |
|
| Home | Store List | FAQ | Contact Us | | ||
| Ultimate Book Price Comparison Engine Save Your Time And Money |
||
 |
Title: Nutcracker by E. T. A. Hoffmann, Roberto Innocenti ISBN: 0-15-100227-4 Publisher: Creative Editions Pub. Date: October, 1996 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: the book behind the ballet
Comment: "The Nutcracker" ballet has been a Christmas season tradition for decades, but the book is less known. It is a blend of the dream world and reality, with Godfather Drosselmeier, who was "small and thin, with a sea of wrinkles on his face", manipulating these fantastic fantasies. The story centers around little Marie, and The Nutcracker who comes to life, to battle the Mouse King.
There is no Santa Claus on Christmas Eve in this tale, but it is the Christ Child who visits children "on his shining wings" and brings them presents.
E.T.A. Hoffmann (1776-1822), who also wrote tales that inspired the Offenbach opera "Tales of Hoffmann" (which later became a film with wonderful dancing by Moira Shearer), wrote The Nutcracker in 1816, and this translation from the German by Major Alex Ewing was first published in 1886.
Hoffmann was one of the first writers to use the horror/fantasy genre to such great effect, and was an influence on Edgar Allan Poe, among others.
Roberto Innocenti's illustrations are perhaps the prime reason to purchase this book. A self-taught artist, Innocenti has worked in animation, and his artistic magic has graced several books.
Innocenti's work is extraordinary, most of it in a somber mood, with exquisite detail and sense of perspective. The people in them look wan and a little sad, and his color palette is subdued, primarily shades of brown, with slate blue and dusty rose accents. His mice are marvelous, and the piece on page 65, of two mice being captured in a cage, with his relatives bemoaning their fate, is brilliant. This is when "Dame Mouselinks fled this scene of horror. Sorrow and rage filled her heart".
With thick semi-gloss pages, and a lovely layout with double-spaced print for easy reading, this is an interesting book for ballet enthusiasts, and fans of Innocenti's work, but might be too dark for young children, and those afflicted with musophobia (fear of mice) beware !
Rating: 5
Summary: The Book is as good as the movie
Comment: I love The Nutcracker I read The Nutcracker in school I think you'll love this and I hope you will like the movie The Nutcracker. it good for watching at Christmas time. I recommend you get this. smiles :) and don't frown :( just be really happy :)))).
 |
Title: Cinderella by Charles Perrault, Roberto Innocenti, Various ISBN: 1568461305 Publisher: Creative Editions Pub. Date: 01 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
 |
Title: The Nutcracker by Janet Schulman, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Renee Graef ISBN: 0060278145 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 31 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
 |
Title: Nutcracker by E.T.A. Hoffmann, Maurice Sendak ISBN: 051755285X Publisher: Crown Publishing Group Pub. Date: 13 September, 1984 List Price(USD): $12.99 |
 |
Title:George Balanchine's The Nutcracker ASIN: 6304698577 Publisher: Warner Studios Pub. Date: 19 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.98 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $13.03 |
Thank you for visiting www.AnyBook4Less.com and enjoy your savings!
Copyright� 2001-2021 Send your comments
