Councillor Krespel is an eccentric violin maker who lives with the mysterious Antonia. Considered to have the most beautiful singing voice the town has ever heard; she has only sung once in her life. Krespel is renowned for making the finest violins in the world, but never sells any and plays each violin he makes only once. What is the dark secret behind this odd couples behaviour? This classic short horror story was written by the famous German Romantic author E.T.A. Hoffmann and is perfect for fans of authors H.P. Lovecraft and Neil Gaiman.
Los tomos de Mi Primera Biblioteca son pequeñas joyas que enseñan a apreciar los buenos libros. Para que los niños de hoy conozcan los cuentos más famosos de todos los tiempos, los tomos de esta coleccion se editan en nuevas versiones, muy cuidadas, e ilustradas por los mejores artistas contemporaneos. Este cuento relata la historia de una cascanueces hechizado.
Happily engaged to the poet Amandus, Fräulein Anna is horrified to discover that a beautiful ring, mysteriously deposited upon her finger whilst tending her kitchen garden, forces her into marriage with the gnome Corduanspitz. Can Anna find any way of removing the ring? Will her poet lover shake off his passive demeanor and come to her aid? And has Corduanspitz truly relinquished all ties to his gnome heritage, as he so proudly claims?
"El cascanueces y el rey de los ratones" (en alemán: "Nussknacker und Mausekönig") es un cuento escrito por Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann en 1816. La historia trata sobre el nuevo juguete de la jove
