Fairy Tales
Written by Hans Christian Andersen
Narrated by Kate Reading and Richard Matthews
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About this audiobook
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" and "The Ugly Duckling," to more subversive later tales such as "The Ice maiden" and "The Wood Nymph."
Hans Christian Andersen
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 14 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 the time of his death in 1875, that have immortalised him. Translated into more than 100 languages and adapted to every kind of media, they have made Andersen the most important children's writer in history.
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Reviews for Fairy Tales
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Quirky but decent effort.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I was bought and read this as a child, so the stories have a particular resonance with me, but I honestly think it's a wonderful collection. The artwork is beautiful and the tales touching and full of imagination - they're undiminished when read as an adult with more knowledge of cliché and similar styles. Just great.