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Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket)

by Hans Christian Andersen , Heinrich Oskar Sommer
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9781774769157
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Royal Classics
  • Publisher Imprint: Royal Classics
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 852
  • Original Price: GBP 39.95
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 1411 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Fantasy / General

Andersen's fairy tales, consisting of 156 stories and translated into more than 125 languages, have become culturally embedded in the West's collective consciousness. The stories are readily accessible to children, but present lessons of virtue and resilience in the face of adversity for mature readers as well. His most famous fairy tales include "The Emperor's New Clothes," "The Little Mermaid," "The Nightingale," "The Steadfast Tin Soldier," "The Red Shoes," "The Princess and the Pea," "The Snow Queen," "The Ugly Duckling," "The Little Match Girl," and "Thumbelina." His stories have inspired ballets, plays, and animated and live-action films.

"The Little Mermaid" was completely Andersen's creation, though influenced by De la Motte Fouqué's "Undine" (1811) and the lore about mermaids. This tale established Andersen's international reputation. Andersen's work sometimes drew on old folktales but more often deployed fairytale motifs and plots in new tales.


This case laminate collector's edition includes a Victorian-inspired dust jacket.

Andersen, Hans Christian: - "Hans Christian Andersen (2 April 1805 - 4 August 1875) was a Danish author. Although a prolific writer of plays, travelogues, novels, and poems, he is best remembered for his literary fairy tales. Although it has been challenged, a persistent speculation suggests that Andersen was an illegitimate son of King Christian VIII. Andersen's father, who had received an elementary school education, introduced his son to literature, reading to him the Arabian Nights. Andersen's mother, Anne Marie Andersdatter, was an illiterate washerwoman. Following her husband's death in 1816, she remarried in 1818. Andersen was sent to a local school for poor children where he received a basic education and had to support himself, working as an apprentice to a weaver and, later, to a tailor. At fourteen, he moved to Copenhagen to seek employment as an actor. Having an excellent soprano voice, he was accepted into the Royal Danish Theatre, but his voice soon changed. A colleague at the theatre told him that he considered Andersen a poet. Taking the suggestion seriously, Andersen began to focus on writing. Jonas Collin, director of the Royal Danish Theatre, held great affection for Andersen and sent him to a grammar school in Slagelse, persuading King Frederick VI to pay part of the youth's education. The works of Hans Christian Andersen became known throughout the world. Rising from a poor social class, the works made him into an acclaimed author. Royal families of the world were patrons of the writings including the monarchy of Denmark. An unexpected invitation from King Christian IX to the royal palace entrenched the Andersen folklore in Danish royalty. At the time of his death, Andersen was internationally revered, and the Danish Government paid him an annual stipend as a "national treasure.""

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