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Hans Christian Andersen was the profoundly imaginative writer and storyteller who revolutionized literature for children. He gave us the now standard versions of some traditional fairy taleswith an anarchic twistbut many of his most famous tales sprang directly from his imagination.

The thirty stories here range from exuberant early works such as The Tinderbox and The Emperor''s New Clothes through poignant masterpieces such as The Little Mermaid and The Ugly Duckling, to more subversive later tales such as The Ice maiden and The Wood Nymph.



Table of Contents
Fairy TalesAcknowledgments
Chronology
Introduction
Further Reading
Translator's Note
A Note on the Illustrations

Fairy Tales
The Tinderbox
Little Claus and Big Claus
The Princess on the Pea
Thumbelina
The Traveling Companion
The Little Mermaid
The Emperor's New Clothes
The Steadfast Tin Soldier
The Wild Swans
The Flying Trunk
The Nightingale
The Sweethearts
The Ugly Duckling
The Fir Tree
The Snow Queen
The Red Shoes
The Shepherdess and the Chimney Sweep
The Shadow
The Old House
The Little Match Girl
The Story of a Mother
The Collar
The Bell
The Marsh King's Daughter
The Wind Tells of Valdemar Daae and His Daughters
The Snowman
The Ice Maiden
The Wood Nymph
The Most Incredible Thing
Auntie Toothache
Notes

Fairy Tales

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    A Paperback / softback by Hans Christian Andersen, Jackie Wullschläger, Tiina Nunnally

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Penguin Classics
      Published 30 November 2006
      ISBN-13 9780143039525
      978-0143039525
      ISBN-10 0143039520
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      Classics Children & Teen Fiction Books by Hans Christian Andersen

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Hans Christian Andersen was the profoundly imaginative writer and storyteller who revolutionized literature for children. He gave us the now standard versions of some traditional fairy taleswith an anarchic twistbut many of his most famous tales sprang directly from his imagination.

      The thirty stories here range from exuberant early works such as The Tinderbox and The Emperor''s New Clothes through poignant masterpieces such as The Little Mermaid and The Ugly Duckling, to more subversive later tales such as The Ice maiden and The Wood Nymph.



      Table of Contents
      Fairy TalesAcknowledgments
      Chronology
      Introduction
      Further Reading
      Translator's Note
      A Note on the Illustrations

      Fairy Tales
      The Tinderbox
      Little Claus and Big Claus
      The Princess on the Pea
      Thumbelina
      The Traveling Companion
      The Little Mermaid
      The Emperor's New Clothes
      The Steadfast Tin Soldier
      The Wild Swans
      The Flying Trunk
      The Nightingale
      The Sweethearts
      The Ugly Duckling
      The Fir Tree
      The Snow Queen
      The Red Shoes
      The Shepherdess and the Chimney Sweep
      The Shadow
      The Old House
      The Little Match Girl
      The Story of a Mother
      The Collar
      The Bell
      The Marsh King's Daughter
      The Wind Tells of Valdemar Daae and His Daughters
      The Snowman
      The Ice Maiden
      The Wood Nymph
      The Most Incredible Thing
      Auntie Toothache
      Notes

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