The Complete Fairy Tales and Stories

by Andersen, Hans Christian; Haugaard, Erik Christian; Haviland, Virginia

• ISBN13: 9780385189514
• ISBN10: 0385189516
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1983-08-09
• Publisher: Anchor

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Hans Christian Andersen (1805—75) was born in Odense, Denmark, the son of a poor shoemaker, who nonetheless was a great reader, made a toy-theatre for his son and taught him to notice every natural wonder as they walked in the woods together on Sundays. His father died when he was eleven, and it wasn't until six years later that, with the help of a patron, he finally went to a state secondary school attended by much youger children. There he suffered at the hands of a cruel headmaster, but he aquired an education and was determined to be a writer. He published his first novel and his first fairy tales in 1835; thereafter he wrote over 150 more of these stories which have become classics in many languages.

A lonely man who never married, he was also an anxious man; he loved travelling, but would carry a coil of rope with him in case of fire in his hotel. Although he originally addressed his fairy tales to children (and some would maintain he had a streak of childhood in his nature) he insisted they were 'for all ages', and the gentleness and humor that are their characteristics are recognized by everyone.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	viii
Foreword	ix
Virginia Haviland
Introduction	xiii
Erik Christian Haugaard
The Tinderbox	1	(7)
Little Claus and Big Claus	8	(12)
The Princess and the Pea	20	(2)
Little Ida's Flowers	22	(7)
Inchelina	29	(9)
The Naughty Boy	38	(2)
The Traveling Companion	40	(17)
The Little Mermaid	57	(20)
The Emperor's New Clothes	77	(5)
The Magic Galoshes	82	(26)
The Daisy	108	(4)
The Steadfast Tin Soldier	112	(5)
The Wild Swans	117	(15)
The Garden of Eden	132	(13)
The Flying Trunk	145	(6)
The Storks	151	(5)
The Bronze Pig	156	(11)
The Pact of Friendship	167	(8)
A Rose From Homer's Grave	175	(2)
The Sandman	177	(11)
The Rose Elf	188	(5)
The Swineherd	193	(5)
The Buckwheat	198	(2)
The Angel	200	(3)
The Nightingale	203	(10)
The Sweethearts	213	(3)
The Ugly Duckling	216	(9)
The Pine Tree	225	(9)
The Snow Queen	234	(29)
Mother Elderberry	263	(8)
The Darning Needle	271	(4)
The Bell	275	(5)
Grandmother	280	(2)
The Hill of the Elves	282	(7)
The Red Shoes	289	(6)
The Jumping Competition	295	(2)
The Shepherdess and the Chimney Sweep	297	(5)
Holger the Dane	302	(4)
The Little Match Girl	306	(3)
From the Ramparts of the Citadel	309	(2)
From a Window in Vartov	311	(2)
The Old Street Lamp	313	(7)
The Neighbors	320	(10)
Little Tuck	330	(4)
The Shadow	334	(12)
The Old House	346	(8)
A Drop of Water	354	(2)
The Happy Family	356	(4)
The Story of a Mother	360	(6)
The Collar	366	(3)
The Flax	369	(5)
The Bird Phoenix	374	(2)
A Story	376	(5)
The Silent Album	381	(2)
The Old Gravestone	383	(3)
There Is a Difference	386	(4)
The World's Most Beautiful Rose	390	(3)
The Year's Story	393	(8)
On the Last Day	401	(4)
It is Perfectly True!	405	(3)
The Swans' Nest	408	(2)
A Happy Disposition	410	(4)
Grief	414	(2)
Everything in its Right Place	416	(8)
The Pixy and the Grocer	424	(4)
The Millennium	428	(3)
Under the Willow Tree	431	(14)
Five Peas From the Same Pod	445	(4)
A Leaf From Heaven	449	(3)
She was no Good	452	(7)
The Last Pearl	459	(3)
The Two Maidens	462	(2)
The Uttermost Parts of the Sea	464	(2)
The Piggy Bank	466	(3)
Ib and Little Christina	469	(10)
Clod Hans	479	(4)
The Thorny Path	483	(4)
The Servant	487	(5)
The Bottle	492	(9)
The Philosopher's Stone	501	(15)
How to Cook Soup Upon a Sausage Pin	516	(12)
The Pepperman's Nightcap	528	(11)
``Something''	539	(6)
The Old Oak Tree's Last Dream	545	(5)
The Talisman	550	(3)
The Bog King's Daughter	553	(32)
The Winners	585	(3)
The Bell Deep	588	(4)
The Evil King	592	(3)
What the Wind Told About Valdemar Daae and his Daughters	595	(11)
The Girl Who Stepped on Bread	606	(8)
The Watchman of the Tower	614	(6)
Anne Lisbeth	620	(10)
Children's Prattle	630	(3)
A String of Pearls	633	(6)
The Pen and the Inkwell	639	(3)
The Dead Child	642	(5)
The Cock and the Weathercock	647	(3)
``Lovely''	650	(7)
A Story from the Dunes	657	(32)
The Puppeteer	689	(5)
The Two Brothers	694	(2)
The Old Church Bell	696	(5)
The Twelve Passengers	701	(4)
The Dung Beetle	705	(8)
What Father Does is Always Right	713	(5)
The Snowman	718	(5)
In the Duckyard	723	(6)
The Muse of the Twentieth Century	729	(6)
The Ice Maiden	735	(47)
The Butterfly	782	(3)
Psyche	785	(11)
The Snail and the Rosebush	796	(3)
``The Will-O'-The-Wisps Are in Town,'' Said the Bog Witch	799	(13)
The Windmill	812	(3)
The Silver Shilling	815	(5)
The Bishop of Børglum Cloister and his Kinsmen	820	(7)
In the Children's Room	827	(5)
The Golden Treasure	832	(8)
How the Storm Changed the Signs	840	(5)
The Teapot	845	(2)
The Songbird of the People	847	(4)
The Little Green Ones	851	(2)
The Pixy and the Gardener's Wife	853	(4)
Peiter, Peter, and Peer	857	(5)
Hidden But Not Forgotten	862	(3)
The Janitor's Son	865	(17)
Moving Day	882	(4)
The Snowdrop	886	(4)
Auntie	890	(6)
The Toad	896	(7)
Godfather's Picture Book	903	(22)
The Rags	925	(2)
The Two Islands	927	(2)
Who Was The Happiest?	929	(5)
The Wood Nymph	934	(20)
The Family of Hen-Grethe	954	(13)
The Adventures of a Thistle	967	(4)
A Question of Imagination	971	(4)
Luck Can Be Found in a Stick	975	(3)
The Comet	978	(4)
The Days of the Week	982	(2)
The Sunshine's Story	984	(3)
Great-Grandfather	987	(5)
The Candles	992	(3)
The Most Incredible	995	(4)
What the Whole Family Said	999	(3)
``Dance, Dance, Dolly Mine!''	1002	(2)
``It is you the Fable is About''	1004	(2)
The Great Sea Serpent	1006	(9)
The Gardener and His Master	1015	(7)
The Professor and the Flea	1022	(4)
The Story Old Johanna Told	1026	(13)
The Front Door Key	1039	(10)
The Cripple	1049	(9)
Auntie Toothache	1058	(10)
Translator's Note	1068	(1)
Author's Preface and Notes	1069	(28)
Index	1097