New Releases by Hans Christian Andersen

Stories that have delighted children and fascinated adults for over a century are the heritage of Hans Christian Andersen. This collection has been selected and translated with the growing audience of adults--both students and general readers--in mind, and displays the full range of Andersen’s authorship, from parable to science fiction. In this fresh, contemporary translation Rossel and Conroy have endeavored to “preserve for the English-speaking audience the engaging duplicity of Andersen’s style, the tension of play between his sympathetic conversational tone and his use of the studied effect.” This is a tension between the simplicity of stories intended to be read aloud to children ad the subtlety of the allegory skillfully woven into each for the adults who would be listening and “must have something to think about,” as Andersen said. The introductions provide an overview of Andersen’s life and struggle to become an author, as well as an analysis of his contributions as an artist and storyteller. Each story has also been provided with an endnote giving publication dates, information about the genesis of the tale, and relevant comments by Andersen and other. Readers who remember with nostalgia such tales as “The Ugly Duckling” and “The Little Match Girl” may be surprised to find the biting satire in many of the stories, such as “The Nightingale” and “The Gardener and the Lord and Lady,” the revealing self-portraits of the author in “The Sweethearts,” “The Butterfly,” and “The Shadow,” the mysticism of “The story of a Mother” and “The Bell” the prophetic quality of “In a Thousand Years Time,” and the complexity and charm of “the Snow Queen.” The book contains the drawings of Vilhelm Pedersen and Lorenz Frolich that originally appeared in the first illustrated Danish editions of Andersen’s tales and stories.

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. 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.

A modern, accessible, and accurate translation of Andersen’s beloved stories which effectively captures Andersen’s conversational and ironic tone and lends itself to use in the classroom.

Despite being neglected by the emperor, the little nightingale revives the dying ruler with its beautiful song.

Adaptation of Andersen''s classic tale by acclaimed writer Pam Gems.

By feeling a pea through twenty mattresses and twenty featherbeds, a girl proves she is a real princess.

Virginia Lee Burton has added her own irrepressible humor in pictures and design to the tale children have loved for centuries. The Emperor, his court, and clothes -- or lack of them -- are ridiculous as only Hans Christian Andersen can make them. The whole is a delightful concoction.

A little fir tree realizes too late that it did not appreciate the grand moments of life, such as being a Christmas tree, while they were happening.

Reprinted here for the first time since the 19th century, these color illustrations by T. Pym make the classic Andersen fairy tale even more magical.One of Andersen''s best-beloved tales, The Snow Queen is a story about the strength and endurance of childhood friendship. Gerda''s search for her playmate Kay -- who was abducted by the Snow Queen and taken to her frozen palace -- is brought to life in delicate and evocative illustrations. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

A peasant woman is sure her husband can do no wrong, even when he exchanges a horse for a sack of rotten apples.

A prince disguises himself as a swineherd and learns the true character of the princess he desires.

Retells six well-known fairy tales by the Danish author including "The Emperor''s New Clothes" and "The Little Mermaid."

Full of fantasy and wonder, these enduring classics are a must for every child''s library. These stories, along with sparkling illustrations, will capture children''s imagination and inspire a love of reading that is vital to success in school and life. Each book features holographic foil stamping. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Danish poet and novelist Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) is best known for the dozens of fairy tales he wrote, including The Little Mermaid, The Ugly Duckling, and The Snow Queen. Andersen''s sense of fantasy, power of description, and acute sensitivity made him a master storyteller, and these gifts are strikingly evident in his autobiography.