Hans Christian Andersen
Hans Christian Andersen
Hans Christian Andersen was born on April 2, 1805, in Odense, Denmark. He was a renowned Danish author and poet, celebrated worldwide for his literary contributions that have captured the imagination of readers for generations. Known for his imaginative storytelling and lyrical style, Andersen's works continue to influence fairy tale literature to this day.
Personal Name: Hans Christian Andersen
Birth: 2 April 1805
Death: 4 August 1875
Hans Christian Andersen Books
(52 Books)
Relates how the wares of the little match girl illuminated her cold world.
Many of these stories for children are famous the world over. 'The Emperor's New Clothes', 'The Little Mermaid', 'The Ice Maiden', 'The Red Shoes', 'The Snow Queen', 'Thumbelina', 'The Steadfast Tin Soldier' and 'The Ugly Duckling' are as popular now as they ever were.
After the Snow Queen abducts her friend Kai, Gerda sets out on a perilous and magical journey to find him.
One of Hans Christian Andersen's most haunting and romantic tales, this is the story of a one-legged tin soldier who falls deeply in love with a beautiful paper dancer. But a curse from an evil goblin sends the tin soldier off on a series of dangerous adventures that carry him farther and farther away from the object of his love. Throughout, the tin soldier remains staunch and fearless until finally he is reunited with the dancer, although not in the manner he had hoped. Award-winning artist P.J. Lynch's stunning illustrations add a dramatic, unexpected element to this classic and moving love story. - Back cover.
A young girl feels a pea through twenty mattresses and twenty featherbeds and proves she is a real princess.
A little sea princess, longing to be human, trades her mermaid's tail for legs, hoping to win the love of a prince and earn an immortal soul for herself.
The emperor shows his stupidity when he walks through the city in the invisible suit two rascal tailors made for him.
Eleven brothers who have been turned into swans by their evil stepmother are saved by their beautiful sister.
La pedagogía moderna, que busca el medio adecuado que facilite la libre expresión de los sentimientos del niño, ha señalado con acierto al cuento y a la fábula como lugares eficaces en los que la fantasía encuentra las imágenes más puras y afines a la capacidad creadora de la infancia.
La reunión en este volumen de los títulos más brillantes de la literatura infantil universal, ya valorados por padres y maestros, satisface ampliamente aquella necesidad y contribuye a la formación de un lenguaje culto, rico en expresiones de fácil incorporación al habla cotidiana.
Though the emperor banishes the nightingale in preference for a jeweled mechanical imitation, the little bird remains faithful and returns years later when the emperor is near death and no one else can help him.
The life of a little fir tree who, when discarded, recalls with nostalgia its two glorious moments--being a beautiful fir and being a brightly-lit Christmas tree.
Little Ida discovers the reason her flowers look so tired in the morning when they were so pretty the evening before.
-La sirenita.
-Los zapatitos rojos.
-El patito feo.
-La luz azul.
-La campana.
-Pulgarcita.
-El cazador.
With the help of a magic tinderbox, a soldier finds a fortune and pursues a princess imprisoned in a castle.
The acorn and the pumpkin / La Fontaine
Babe Ruth, the home-run king of baseball
The bells / Edgar Allan Poe
Casey at the bat / Ernest Lawrence Thayer
Casey's comeback / James Wilson
The cataract of Lodore / Robert Southey
The cloud / Percy Bysshe Shelley
Columbine and her playfellows of the Italian pantomime
David Copperfield and little Em'ly [arranged] / Charles Dickens
David, the shepherd boy [arranged from the Bible]
East o' the sun and west o' the moon [a Norse folk tale]
Gigi and the magic ring / Ann Macdonell
The golden bird [a German fairy tale]
The golden touch / Nathaniel Hawthorne
The knights of the silver shield / Raymond MacDonald Alden
The little-man-as-big-as-your-thumb-with-mustaches-seven-miles-long [a Russian legend]
The maiden, the knight, and the waterfall [a Roumanian fairy tale]
Miska and the man-with-the-iron-head [a Hungarian fairy tale]
The peddler's song / William Shakespeare
Phaeton [a Greek myth]
The prince who rode through a mousehole [a Czech folk song]
The raggle, taggle gypsies [Old folk song]
The renowned and world-famous adventures of Punch and Judy
- Rhodopis and her gilded sandals [a folk tale of ancient Egypt].
The six swans [a German fairy tale]
The sky at night [from the Bible]
The snow-queen / Hans Christian Andersen
Song on May morning / John Milton
The trial by fire [a Maori folk tale from New Zealand]
Vladimir's adventures in search of fortune [a Yugoslavian tale from Serbia]
White horses / Hamish Hendry
The winter's tale / Charles and Mary Lamb
The youth who wanted some fun [a Welsh fairy tale].
Contains:
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - novelette by Washington Irving
Federigo - short story by Prosper Mérimée (trans. of Federigo 1829)
[Dr. Heidegger's Experiment](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455515W) - Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Overcoat - novelette by Николай Гоголь (trans. of Шинель) [as by Nikolai Gogol]
A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost Story of Christmas - novella by Charles Dickens (variant of A Christmas Carol)
The Snow Queen - juvenile - novelette by Hans Christian Andersen (trans. of Snedronningen 1845)
Hands Off - short story by Edward Everett Hale
How Much Land Does a Man Need - short story by Лев Толстой (trans. of Много ли человеку земли нужно) [as by Leo Tolstoi]
The Canterville Ghost - novelette by Oscar Wilde
Lot No. 249 - novelette by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Bottle Imp - novelette by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Christmas Shadrach - short story by Frank R. Stockton
Black Heart and White Heart - novella by H. Rider Haggard
The Man Who Could Work Miracles - short story by H. G. Wells
Hans Christian Andersen is one of the world's most popular storytellers, and his fairy tales are among the best-loved works of literature. Readers the world over know his poignant tale of "The Little Mermaid," who sacrifices everything for love, and "The Steadfast Tin Soldier," whose affection for a paper ballerina is symbolized by his transformation into a small tin heart. Several of Andersen's stories are so well known—among them "The Emperor's New Clothes" and "The Ugly Duckling"—that their titles alone have become meaningful figures of speech.
Hans Christian Andersen: Classic Fairy Tales collects 100 of Andersen's incomparable fairy tales and stories, among them "Thumbelina," "The Little Match Girl," "The Princess and the Pea," "The Red Shoes," "The Wild Swans," and his fantasy masterpiece, "The Snow-Queen." The book is abundantly illustrated with more than 100 hundred drawings and color plates by Dugald Stewart Walker and Hans Tegner, two of Andersen's best-known illustrators.
“”My life is a lovely story, happy and full of incident.” So writes Andersen in the first line of his autobiography, which has the charm and felicitous phrasing of his well-loved fairy tales.”
— A.L.A. Catalog 1926
“The absolute candor with which Andersen lays bare his soul, the complete intentional or unintentional self-revelation, gives a psychological value to the book which no mere literary grace could bestow. . . . Andersen remained, until the day of his death, a child. His innocence was more than virginal; his unworldliness simply inconceivable. . . . He conceived of his life as a fairy-tale. . . . The feeling of the marvellous pervades the book from beginning to end.”
– Standard Catalog for Public Libraries: Biography Section (1927)
Many of these stories for children are famous the world over. 'The Emperor's New Clothes', 'The Little Mermaid', 'The Ice Maiden', 'The Red Shoes', 'The Snow Queen', 'Thumbelina', 'The Steadfast Tin Soldier' and 'The Ugly Duckling' are as popular now as thety ever were.
Many of these stories for children are famous the world over. 'The Emperor's New Clothes', 'The Little Mermaid', 'The Ice Maiden', 'The Red Shoes', 'The Snow Queen', 'Thumbelina', 'The Steadfast Tin Soldier' and 'The Ugly Duckling' are as popular now as thety ever were.
Presents nine of Andersen's well-known tales: The Emperor's New Clothes, The Princess on the Pea, Thumbelina, The Ugly Duckling, The Tinderbox, The Shepherdess and the Chimney Sweep, The Little Match Girl, The Nightingale, and The Little Mermaid.
A large print collection of Christmas favorites includes *A Christmas Carol*, *The Gift of the Magi*, the entire text of Handel's *Messiah*, and many other poems, prayers, hymns, and stories.
Gathers the stories of a mermaid, a foolish emperor, a tiny girl, an ugly duckling, a witch, a clever farmer, a sensitive princess, and enchanted swans.
A collection of forty fairy tales by Andersen, including "The Mermaid," "The Red Shoes," The Tinder Box," and " The Ugly Duckling."
Even when her husband ends up with a sack of rotten apples in exchange for a horse a peasant woman is sure he can do no wrong.
Thirty-four fairy tales including "The red shoes", "The chimney sweep", "The nightingale", and "The garden of paradise".
A prince disguises himself as a swineherd and learns the true character of the princess he desires.
Two dishonest weavers sell the vain emperor an invisible suit of clothes.
