Uniquely inventive and vivacious in style and with deep insight into children's points of view, Hans Christian Andersen established a new genre in literature.
Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition of Best Fairy Tales uses the classic translation by Jean Hersholt and is illustrated by various artists, with an afterword by Ned Halley.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
The Tinder Box
Little Claus and Big Claus
The Princess on the Pea
Thumbelina
The Little Mermaid
The Emperor's New Clothes
The Galoshes of Fortune
The Steadfast Tin Soldier
The Wild Swans
The Wicked Prince
Something
Ole Lukoie
The Swineherd
The Angel
The Nightingale
The Ugly Duckling
The Fir Tree
The Snow Queen
The Red Shoes
The Shepherdess and the Chimney-Sweep
The Bell
The Little Match Girl
Little Tuck
The Shadow
The Old House
The Happy Family
The Story of a Mother
It's Quite True!
The Goblin and the Grocer
The Ice Maiden
The Butterfly
The Dryad
Biography
Further Reading
Hans Christian Andersen was a profoundly imaginative writer and storyteller who gave us the now standard versions of some traditional fairy tales - with an anarchic twist - but 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', 'The Little Match Girl' and 'The Ugly Duckling', to more subversive later tales such as 'The Ice Maiden' and 'The Dryad'.
Born in Odense, the son of a aa shoe-maker and a washerwoman, he had a talent for poetry, and at 14 went to Copenhagen to seek a job in the theatre. In 1835 he began publishing the tiny pamphlets of fairy tales which are his greatest work and there are more than 150 of them, including The Tin Soldiers, The Emperor's New Clothes, The Snow Queen, The Little Mermaid and The Ugly Duckling. He is considered to be one of the world's greatest storytellers.
MacMillan Collector's Library
Pub Date: November 01, 2016
1.0" H x 6.0" L x 3.9" W
464 pages
hardcover