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Enjoy eight timeless tales from a magical storyteller
This enchanting collection, retold by writer and critic Naomi Lewis, contains eight of Hans Christian Andersen's magnificent stories. It includes Thumbelina, a little girl no more than a thumb-joint high, The Emperor's New Clothes, the tale of a man who cares only for his appearance and The Little Mermaid, who longs to one day marry a human prince.
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Hans Christian Andersen was born in Odense, Denmark, in 1805. At the age of 14 he went to Copenhagen to become an actor. He failed and instead went back to school, where he was very unhappy. He published his first book, an account of a walking trip in 1829. From then on he wrote many books, finding his true voice in his original fairy stories, which often had their basis in his life. He died in 1875.
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There was once a prince who wished to marry a princess - but a real princess she had to be. Read the first page
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is a good version of Andersens fairy tales in terms of translation,it makes the stories alive for children and adults too. Their are well known tales such as the Little Mermaid, but also some little known yarns,together they make a good mix. This book is fairly priced and full of good fayre. Well worth a read.Andersen's Fairy Tales (Wordsworth's Children's Classics)
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Andersen's tales are well-known, of course, but in the case of a writer whose original stories were in another language, we get a lot of different translations. The basic story remains the same, of course.
In this Lewis translation of 12 stories, the English is lovely. In particular, the lesser-known "The Goblin at the Grocer's" is well-done. I found an internet site that has most or all of Andersen's stories, but the version there paled in comparison. Well worth the...(price) to get the Lewis, though I would like a complete Andersen by Lewis!
In this Lewis translation of 12 stories, the English is lovely. In particular, the lesser-known "The Goblin at the Grocer's" is well-done. I found an internet site that has most or all of Andersen's stories, but the version there paled in comparison. Well worth the...(price) to get the Lewis, though I would like a complete Andersen by Lewis!
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104 of 106 people found the following review helpful
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12 May 2010
Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
I have been slowly (so veeeerrry slooooowlllly) working my way through all the Hans Christian Andersen books available for kindle. This is the only one I would suggest reading.
Not only does this version have an active table of contents and lack any of the distracting misplacement of page numbers and illustration names that several of the others have (although it's still not illustrated), but it contains what appears to be every story ever written by Hans Christian Andersen!
Long stories (The Ice Maiden), short stories (The Princess and the Pea), well-known stories (The Little Mermaid), unknown stories (She was Good for Nothing) and dozens of others are all contained within these e-ink pages!
They are also readable! This is not the case with some of the other HCA books on kindle. The stories are still really boring, occasionally tedious, generally depressing and often religious, but yet I can read them without wanting to scream and pull my hair out as I did with What the Moon Saw: and Other Tales. Instead they are somehow magically more approachable and I can almost remember why I loved Hans Christian Andersen so much as a child (selected stories from, at least).
So if you, like me, are determined to try and re-visit your childhood via fairy tales written by Hans Christian Andersen no matter what, at least take pity on yourself--or pity on your children if you're trying to read the stories to them--and read this version.
Not only does this version have an active table of contents and lack any of the distracting misplacement of page numbers and illustration names that several of the others have (although it's still not illustrated), but it contains what appears to be every story ever written by Hans Christian Andersen!
Long stories (The Ice Maiden), short stories (The Princess and the Pea), well-known stories (The Little Mermaid), unknown stories (She was Good for Nothing) and dozens of others are all contained within these e-ink pages!
They are also readable! This is not the case with some of the other HCA books on kindle. The stories are still really boring, occasionally tedious, generally depressing and often religious, but yet I can read them without wanting to scream and pull my hair out as I did with What the Moon Saw: and Other Tales. Instead they are somehow magically more approachable and I can almost remember why I loved Hans Christian Andersen so much as a child (selected stories from, at least).
So if you, like me, are determined to try and re-visit your childhood via fairy tales written by Hans Christian Andersen no matter what, at least take pity on yourself--or pity on your children if you're trying to read the stories to them--and read this version.
30 of 31 people found the following review helpful
connorcharlie
28 April 2010
Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
I had looked at several of Andersen's books on kindle. This is the best one I could find. It's free and very comprehensive (and long, goes past location 14000) There is an active table of contents, even though table of contents is grayed out on menu.
24 of 25 people found the following review helpful
An Wonderful Kindle Version of this Book
30 Oct 2010
Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
I do not have much to add to the foregoing reviews except that the active Table of Contents has the stories in alphabetical order so that you can easily get to your favorites. Access was very easy and quick. Don't waste your time on any other Kindle version of this book.
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