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The first volume of Andersen's Fairy Tales was published in 1835. For over a hundred years, they have been accepted as the greatest ever written. Simple folk tales, humorous stories, elaborate fantasies, new versions of old tales-they were all told with the originality and skillful interpretations of a great storyteller touched with magic. His stories produced a pattern which most tales of imagination still follow.
Hans Christian Andersen's own life was a fairy tale. Born of very humble parents in the little town of Odense, he overcame great obstacles of health and fortune and lived to be the friend of kings and notable artists and writers, all over the world.
In this collection are the most famous of all his stories, in versions which have been carefully compared with early tellings in order to preserve some of the phrases of Andersen's own day.
—from the dust jacket
This collection of 16 stories is accompanied by two-tone illustrations in black and pink.
Contents:
- The Tinderbox
- Little Claus and Big Claus
- The Princess on the Pea
- Little Ida's Flowers
- Tommelisa
- The Traveling Companion
- The Little Mermaid
- The Emperor's New Clothes
- The Steadfast Tin Soldier
- The Wild Swans
- The Swineherd
- The Nightingale
- The Ugly Duckling
- The Snow Queen
- The Darning Needle
- Booby Hans
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