Complete Fairy Tales and Stories - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140090193 ISBN 13: 9780140090192

Publisher: Puffin Books

Synopsis

Containing 156 stories in all, this is a modern translation of all Andersen's work.

About this title

About the Author:

Hans Christian Andersen(1805 75) was born in Odense, Denmark, the son of a poor shoemaker, who nonetheless was a great reader, made a toy-theatre for his son and taught him to notice every natural wonder as they walked in the woods together on Sundays. His father died when he was eleven, and it wasn't until six years later that, with the help of a patron, he finally went to a state secondary school attended by much youger children. There he suffered at the hands of a cruel headmaster, but he aquired an education and was determined to be a writer. He published his first novel and his first fairy tales in 1835; thereafter he wrote over 150 more of these stories which have become classics in many languages.
A lonely man who never married, he was also an anxious man; he loved travelling, but would carry a coil of rope with him in case of fire in his hotel. Although he originally addressed his fairy tales to children (and some would maintain he had a streak of childhood in his nature) he insisted they were 'for all ages', and the gentleness and humor that are their characteristics are recognized by everyone."

From the Inside Flap:

Translated by Erik Hougaard, this is the only version available in trade paperback that presents the fairy tales exactly as Andersen collected them in the original Danish edition in 1874. His notes accompany the text.

About this edition

• Publisher: Puffin Books
• ISBN 10: 0140090193
• ISBN 13: 9780140090192
• Binding: Paperback