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The Complete Fairy Tales and Stories (The Anchor Folktale Library) (in English)
Hans Christian Andersen
(Author)
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Erik Christian Haugaard
(Translated by)
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Virginia Haviland
(Preface by)
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Anchor Books
· Paperback
The Complete Fairy Tales and Stories (The Anchor Folktale Library) (in English) - Andersen, Hans Christian ; Haugaard, Erik Christian ; Haviland, Virginia
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Synopsis "The Complete Fairy Tales and Stories (The Anchor Folktale Library) (in English)"
This definitive collection of work from Hans Christian Andersen--one of the immortals of world literature--not only includes his own notes to his stories but is the only version available in trade paperback that presents Andersen's fairy tales exactly as he collected them in the original Danish edition of 1874. Recognizing the literary merit of Andersen's own simple colloquial language, which Victorian translators and their imitators very often altered to sentimentalize or vulgarize, translator Erik Haugaard has remained faithful to the original text. The fairy tales Hans Christian Andersen wrote, such as The Snow Queen, The Ugly Duckling, The Red Shoes, and The Nightingale, are remarkable for their sense of fantasy, power of description, and acute sensitivity, and they are like no others written before or since. Unlike the Brothers Grimm, who collected and retold folklore, Andersen adopted the most ancient literary forms of the fairy tale and the folktale and distilled them into a genre that was uniquely his own.
