Tales and Stories by Hans Christian Andersen {27 stories}
by Hans Christian Andersen
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Stories that have delighted children and fascinated adults for over a century are the heritage of Hans Christian Andersen. This collection has been selected and translated with the growing audience of adults--both students and general readers--in mind, and displays the full range of Andersen ?s authorship, from parable to science fiction.In this fresh, contemporary translation Rossel and Conroy have endeavored to ?preserve for the English-speaking audience the engaging duplicity of Andersen show more ?s style, the tension of play between his sympathetic conversational tone and his use of the studied effect. ? This is a tension between the simplicity of stories intended to be read aloud to children ad the subtlety of the allegory skillfully woven into each for the adults who would be listening and ?must have something to think about, ? as Andersen said.The introductions provide an overview of Andersen ?s life and struggle to become an author, as well as an analysis of his contributions as an artist and storyteller. Each story has also been provided with an endnote giving publication dates, information about the genesis of the tale, and relevant comments by Andersen and other.Readers who remember with nostalgia such tales as ?The Ugly Duckling ? and ?The Little Match Girl ? may be surprised to find the biting satire in many of the stories, such as ?The Nightingale ? and ?The Gardener and the Lord and Lady, ? the revealing self-portraits of the author in ?The Sweethearts, ? ?The Butterfly, ? and ?The Shadow, ? the mysticism of ?The story of a Mother ? and ?The Bell ? the prophetic quality of ?In a Thousand Years Time, ? and the complexity and charm of ?the Snow Queen. ?The book contains the drawings of Vilhelm Pedersen and Lorenz Frolich that originally appeared in the first illustrated Danish editions of Andersen ?s tales and stories. show lessTags
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Hans Christian Andersen, one of the best known figures in literature, is best know for combining traditional folk tales with his own great imagination to produce fairy tales known to most children today. The Danish writer was born in the slums of Odense. Although he was raised in poverty, he eventually attended Copenhagen University. Although show more Andersen wrote poems, plays and books, he is best known for his Fairy Tales and Other Stories, written between 1835 and 1872. This work includes such famous tales as The Emperor's New Clothes, Little Ugly Duckling, The Tinderbox, Little Claus and Big Claus, Princess and the Pea, The Snow Queen, The Little Mermaid, The Nightingale, The Story of a Mother and The Swineherd. Andersen's greatest work is still influential today, helping mold some of the works of writers ranging from Charles Dickens to Oscar Wilde and inspiring many of the works of Disney and other motion pictures. Andersen, who traveled greatly during his life, died in his home in Rolighed on August 4, 1875. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Fiction and Literature, Children's Books, General Fiction
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- 839 — Literature & rhetoric German & related literatures Other Germanic literatures
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- PT8116 .E5 — Language and Literature German, Dutch and Scandinavian literatures Danish literature Individual authors or works 19th century Andersen, Hans Christian
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