安徒生文集 Hans Christian Andersen； 'Snow Queen' ; Tales for the Young

Hans Christian Andersen died in Østerbro, Copenhagen, Kingdom of Denmark on this day in 1875 (aged 70).

"'But he has nothing on at all,' said a little child at last. 'Good heavens! listen to the voice of an innocent child,' said the father, and one whispered to the other what the child had said. 'But he has nothing on at all,' cried at last the whole people. That made a deep impression upon the emperor, for it seemed to him that they were right; but he thought to himself, 'Now I must bear up to the end.' And the chamberlains walked with still greater dignity, as if they carried the train which did not exist."
--from "The Emperor's New Clothes"

"The Princess and the Pea, ""The Little Mermaid, " and other great Andersen fairy tales have enchanted children since the first ones appeared in Danish in the 1830s and '40s. Spink's translation into English is widely recognized as the finest, and the new Everyman's Library edition is further graced by the magical pictures made in 1899 by three of Britain's most celebrated illustrators. MORE here:http://knopfdoubleday.com/book/3343/fairy-tales/

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The snow queen / Hans Christian Andersen ; drawings by Katharine Beverley and Elizabeth Ellender. (1929)

'Emperor’s New Clothes' from 'Fairy Tales ... Illustrated by Harry Clarke. F P' (1916)

'The girl who trod on a loaf' from 'Hans Andersen's Stories' (1932). Illustrated by Jennie Harbour.

“I can give her no greater power than she has already, said the woman; don't you see how strong that is? How men and animals are obliged to serve her, and how well she has got through the world, barefooted as she is. She cannot receive any power from me greater than she now has, which consists in her own purity and innocence of heart. If she cannot herself obtain access to the Snow Queen, and remove the glass fragments from little Kay, we can do nothing to help her.”
―from "The Snow Queen" by Hans Christian Andersen


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.

'Thumbelina' from 'Fairy Tales ... Illustrated by Harry Clarke. F P' (1916)

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"They could see she was a real Princess and no question about it, now that she had felt one pea all the way through twenty mattresses and twenty more feather beds. Nobody but a Princess could be so delicate."
--from "The Princess and the Pea" included in "The Complete Fairy Tales and Stories" by Hans Christian Andersen

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.

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'The Ugly Duckling ... Pictured in colours by T. Van Hoytema.', 1894

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