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Includes bibliographical references (pages 435-449).

I: Tales for children -- The emperor's new clothes -- The snow queen -- The princess and the pea -- The nightingale -- The ugly duckling -- The little mermaid -- The tinderbox -- The wild swans -- Thumbelina -- The little match girl -- The steadfast tin soldier -- Ole shut-eye -- II: Tales for adults -- The red shoes -- The shadow -- The psyche -- The most astonishing thing -- The story of a mother -- The girl who trod on the loaf -- The phoenix -- The goblin and the grocer -- Auntie Toothache -- The flying trunk -- Heartache -- The bell -- III: Biographies -- A fairy-tale life? Hans Christian Andersen -- Andersen's illustrators -- IV: Andersen's readers -- V: Bibliography -- Works by Hans Christian Andersen -- Secondary literature.

This book is an informative collection of Hans Christian Andersen's stories, annotated by one of America's leading folklore scholars. Maria Tatar celebrates the stories told by Denmark's "perfect wizard" and re-envisions Hans Christian Andersen as a writer who casts his spell on both children and adults. Andersen's most beloved tales, such as "The Emperor's New Clothes," "The Ugly Duckling," and "The Little Mermaid," are now joined by "The Shadow" and "Story of a Mother," mature stories that reveal his literary range and depth. Tatar captures the tales' unrivaled dramatic and visual power, showing exactly how Andersen became one of the world's ten most translated authors. Lushly illustrated with more than one hundred fifty rare images, many in full color, by artists such as Arthur Rackham and Edmund Dulac, The Annotated Hans Christian Andersen will captivate readers with annotations that explore the rich social and cultural dimensions of the nineteenth century and construct a compelling portrait of a writer whose stories still fascinate us today. 146 illustrations including color. - Publisher.

Translated from the Danish.