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The complete fairy tales and stories / Hans Christian Andersen ; translated from the Danish by Erik Christian Haugaard ; foreword by Virginia Haviland ; cover art by Maurice Sendak.
Title:
The complete fairy tales and stories / Hans Christian Andersen ; translated from the Danish by Erik Christian Haugaard ; foreword by Virginia Haviland ; cover art by Maurice Sendak.
Author:
Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian), 1805-1875, author.

Haviland, Virginia, 1911-1988, author or foreword.

Sendak, Maurice, illustrator.

Haugaard, Erik Christian. translator.
ISBN:
9780385189514
Uniform Title:
Tales. English
Edition:
First Anchor books edition.
Physical Description:
xxiv, 1101 pages ; 23 cm.
Series:
The Anchor folktale library

Anchor folktale library.
General Note:
Includes index.
Contents:
The tinderbox -- Little Claus and big Claus -- The Princess and the pea -- Little Ida's flowers -- Inchelina -- The naughty boy -- The traveling companion -- The little mermaid -- The Emperor's new clothes -- The magic galoshes -- The daisy -- The steadfast tin soldier -- The wild swans -- The Garden of Eden -- The flying trunk -- The storks -- The bronze pig -- The pact of friendship -- The rose from Homer's grave -- Sandman -- The Rose elf -- The swineherd -- The buckwheat -- The angel -- The nightingale -- The sweethearts -- The ugly duckling -- The pine tree -- The Snow Queen -- Mother Elderberry -- The darning needle -- The bell -- Grandmother -- The hill of the elves -- The red shoes -- The jumping competition -- The shepherdess and the chimney sweep -- Holger the Dane -- The little match girl -- From the ramparts of the citadel -- From a window in Vartov -- The old street lamp -- The neighbors -- Little Tuck -- The shadow -- The old house -- A drop of water -- The happy family -- The story of a mother -- The collar -- The flax -- The bird Phoenix -- A story -- The silent album -- The old gravestone -- There is a difference -- The world's most beautiful rose -- The year's story -- On the last day -- It is perfectly true! -- The swans' nest -- A happy disposition -- Grief -- Everything in its right place -- The pixy and the grocer -- The millennium -- Under the willow tree -- Five peas from the same pod -- A leaf from heaven -- She was no good -- The last pearl -- The two maidens -- The uttermost parts of the sea -- The piggy bank -- Ib and little Christina -- Clod Hans -- The thorny path.

The servant -- The bottle -- The philosopher's stone -- How to cook soup upon a sausage pin -- The pepperman's nightcap -- "Something" -- The old oak tree's last dream -- The talisman -- The Bog King's daughter -- The winners -- The bell deep -- The evil king -- What the wind told about Valdemar Daae and his daughters -- The girl who stepped on bread -- The watchman of the tower -- Anne Lisbeth -- Children's prattle -- A string of pearls -- The pen and the inkwell -- The dead child -- The cock and the weathercock -- "Lovely" -- A story from the dunes -- The puppeteer -- The two brothers -- The old church bell -- The twelve passengers -- The dung beetle -- What father does is always right -- The snowman -- In the duckyard -- The muse of the twentieth century -- The ice maiden -- The butterfly -- Psyche -- The snail and the rosebush -- "The will-o-the-wisps are in town," said the Bog Witch -- The windmill -- The silver shilling -- The Bishop of Børglum Cloister and his kinsmen -- In the children's room -- The golden treasure -- How the storm changed the signs -- The teapot -- The songbird of the people -- The little green ones -- The pixy and the gardener's wife -- Peiter, Peter, and Peer -- Hidden but not forgotten -- The janitor's son -- Moving day -- The snowdrop -- Auntie -- The toad -- Godfather's picture book -- The rags -- The two islands -- Who was the happiest? -- The wood nymph -- The family of Hen-Grethe -- The adventures of a thistle -- A question of imagination -- Luck can be found in a stick -- The comet -- The days of the week -- The sunshine's story -- Great-grandfather -- The candles -- The most incredible -- What the whole family said -- "Dance, dance, Dolly mine!" -- "It is you the fable is about" -- The great sea serpent -- The gardener and his master -- The professor and the flea -- The story old Johanna told -- The front door key -- The cripple -- Auntie Toothache.
Abstract:
Presents 156 tales accompanied by the author's notes on the background of his stories.
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