Best Fairy Tales (Macmillan Collector's Library)

Author(s): Hans Christian Andersen

Classics

Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.


Hans Christian Andersen was the profoundly imaginative writer and storyteller who revolutionized literature for children. He gave us the now standard versions of some traditional fairy tales - with an anarchic twist - but many of his most famous tales sprang directly from his imagination. The thirty stories here range from exuberant early works such as 'The Tinderbox' and 'The Emperor's New Clothes' through poignant masterpieces such as 'The Little Mermaid', 'The Little Match Girl' and 'The Ugly Duckling', to more subversive later tales such as 'The Ice Maiden' and 'The Dryad'. Uniquely inventive and vivacious in style and with deep insight into the child's point of view, Andersen had established a new genre in literature.


This is the classic translation by Jean Hersholt.


Illustrated by various artists, with an afterword by Ned Halley.


Product Information

Hans Christian Andersen's unique and inventive stories

Hans Christian Andersen was born in Odense, Denmark, in 1805. He endured a lonely, impoverished childhood consoled by little more than his own imagination. He escaped to a theatre life in Copenhagen aged fourteen, where the support of a powerful patron enabled him to complete his scant education, and to write. His poetry, novels and travel books became hugely popular. But it was his Fairy Tales, the first children's stories of their kind, published in instalments from 1835 until his death in 1875, that have immortalised him. Translated into more than 100 languages and adapted for every kind of media, they have made Andersen the most important children's writer in history.

General Fields

  • : 9781509826650
  • : Pan Macmillan
  • : PAN MACMILLAN UK
  • : 0.25
  • : August 2016
  • : 157mm X 102mm X 22mm
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Hans Christian Andersen
  • : Hardback
  • : 1
  • : English
  • : 839.8136
  • : 464