![]() ![]() ![]() If a story takes place in a magical land, with fantastical creatures who perform wondrous tasks, it is very likely a fairy tale. For example, stories of the tooth fairy, the boogeyman, leprechauns and pots of gold or even Santa Claus. 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. Many tales that your parents or grandparents may have told you off the top of their heads are also fairy tales. Some of his most famous fairy tales include The Little Mermaid, The Ugly Duckling, The Nightingale, The Emperors New Clothes and many more. 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. ![]() 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. This 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. ![]()
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