Fairy Tales and Stories
Author:
Hans Christian Andersen 
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Illustrator:
Eric Pape
Editor:
Signe Toksvig
Foreword:
Francis Hackett
Publication:
1921 by The Macmillan Company
Genre:
Anthology, Classic Literature, Fairy Tales, Fiction, Folk Tales, Short Story
Pages:
214
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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 skilful [sic] 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 of the 1961 Macmillan New Children's Classics edition
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Hans Christian Andersen
1805 - 1875Danish
Mr. Hans Christian Andersen himself thought very little of his famous book, Fairy Tales Told for Children. Indeed he called the stories "a mere sleigh... See more
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Podcast
Episode 70: Why Read Fairy Tales?
Released in 2020 by The Literary Life
Available formats: Streaming Audio
Length: 1 hr. 29 min.
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"Angelina Stanford and Cindy Rollins tackle the topic of fairy stories, discussing the what, why and how of reading them. Angelina shares the distinctive characteristics of fairy stories in contrast to other types of stories, such as myths. They deal with the question of whether fairy tales are 'escapist', the influence of the Grimm brothers scholarly work on interpreting fairy stories, and allowing the story to unveil its deeper truths without forcing meaning onto it.
Angelina gives an illustration of how to see the gospel messages in fairy tales by talking us through the story of Sleeping Beauty. She refutes the ideas that fairy tales are about human romance or are misogynistic. She also highlights some of the Enlightenment and Puritan responses to fairy tales that still linger with us today. Cindy and Angelina also discuss some common concerns such as the magical, weird, or scary aspects of fairy tales. Angelina also makes a distinction between folk tales, literary fairy tales, and cautionary tales."
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