

Hoffman’s 1816 novella, The Nutcracker and The Mouse King. Tchaikovsky’s omnipresent holiday ballet has long since become the preeminent version of the story, but it’s an adaptation of an adaptation, based on Alexandre Dumas’ version of E.T.

The Nutcracker and the Mouse King: The Graphic NovelĮveryone knows the story of The Nutcracker, or, at least, a version of the story of The Nutcracker.
