This collection gathers the literary fairy tales Hans Christian Andersen wrote from the 1830s onward for print, not as records of a single folk source. Typical pieces follow children, soldiers, mermaids, and household objects through tests of love, pride, poverty, and transformation: a mermaid who bargains away her voice for a human life, a duckling outcast among farmyard birds, an emperor paraded in cloth that does not exist, a girl held in a palace of ice. The tone moves between comedy, pathos, and moral fable. The volume is a selection of self-contained stories, not a novel, and presents Andersen's invented narratives rather than anonymous oral tradition.
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8 SubjectsBound in red cloth with an inset design in white and gold by Robinson on cover. Pale yellow endleaves. Red slipcase.
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| 16th Printing | 2017 | — |