Fairy Tales and Stories
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Author:
Hans Christian Andersen Information you may want to know about this author
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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