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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-100385189516
ISBN-139780385189514
eBay Product ID (ePID)172486
Product Key Features
Book TitleComplete Fairy Tales and Stories
Number of Pages1120 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1983
TopicClassics, Short Stories (Single Author), Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, Fairy Tales & Folklore / General, Short Stories
IllustratorYes
GenreJuvenile Fiction, Fiction
AuthorHans Christian. Andersen
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1.8 in
Item Weight34.7 Oz
Item Length8.9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN73-083883
Dewey Edition20
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Decimal839.8136
SynopsisThis definitive collection of work from Hans Christian Andersen--one of the immortals of world literature--not only includes his own notes to his stories but is the only version available in trade paperback that presents Andersen's fairy tales exactly as he collected them in the original Danish edition of 1874. Recognizing the literary merit of Andersen's own simple colloquial language, which Victorian translators and their imitators very often altered to sentimentalize or vulgarize, translator Erik Haugaard has remained faithful to the original text. The fairy tales Hans Christian Andersen wrote, such as "The Snow Queen," "The Ugly Duckling," "The Red Shoes," and "The Nightingale," are remarkable for their sense of fantasy, power of description, and acute sensitivity, and they are like no others written before or since. Unlike the Brothers Grimm, who collected and retold folklore, Andersen adopted the most ancient literary forms of the fairy tale and the folktale and distilled them into a genre that was uniquely his own.