Hans Christian Andersen is the best-loved of all tellers of fairy tales. This collection of over forty of Andersen's most popular stories includes The Mermaid, The Real Princess, The Red Shoes, The Little Match Girl, The Snow Queen, The Tinder Box, The Ugly Duckling and many more. It is delightfully illustrated in black-and-white by those remarkable brothers, Charles, Thomas and William Heath Robinson.

This collection contains:

1. "The mermaid"


2. "Hans Clodhopper"


3. "The flying trunk"


4. "The rose elf"


5. "The wild swans"


6. "The elf-hill"


7. "The real princess"


8. "A picture from the ramparts"


9. "The red shoes"


10. "Thumbelina"


11. "The goblin and the huckster"


12. "The bottle neck"


13. "The steadfast tin soldier"


14. "The pea blossom"


15. "The butterfly"


16. "The snail and the rose-bush"


17. "The nightingale"


18. "The ugly duckling"


19. "Great Claus and Little Claus"


20. "The garden of paradise"


21. "Little Tuk"


22. "The little match girl"


23. "The Snow Queen"


24. "A rose from Homer's grave"


25. "The emperor's new clothes"


26. "The naughty boy"


27. "Holger the Dane"


28. "What the moon saw"


29. "The tinder box"


30. "The goloshes of fortune"


31. "The bronze boar"


32. "The bell"


33. "Ole Lukohe, the dustman"


34. "The swineherd"


35. "The travelling companions"


36. "The fir-tree"


37. "The beetle who went on his travels"
38. "The shepherdess and the chimney sweep"