The Nutcracker and the Mouse King

The nutcracker takes marie to a magical kingdom with meadows of candy, a lemonade river and towns made of gingerbread and bonbons. She soon learns that the nutcracker is the prince of comfituremburg, or the kingdom of swits. Marie often tells her parents what she has experienced and seen, only for them to blame her fevered mind and order her to stop telling such wild tales. This whole story is twisting and layred. It folds back on itself at various points. Gas lighting. A year and a day later, marie and the younger drosselmier marry and from there reign as king and queen of the kingdom of Sw