Fairy Tales: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

by Hans Christian Andersen (Author), Tiina Nunnally (Translator), Jackie Wullschläger (Editor)

• Used

  Illustrated
  2006

  $4.44

  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.

• Used

  Paperback
  1988

  $5.85

• Used

  Hardcover
  1978

  $11.80

• New

  Paperback
  2005

  $11.78

  Containing an enchanting mix of familiar favourites and hidden gems, the Penguin Classics edition of Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales is translated by Tiina Nunnally and edited with an introduction by Jackie Wullschlager. The first writer to create timeless, universal fairy tales from his own imagination, Hans Christian Andersen conjured up a world of icy queens, match girls and tin soldiers, rewarded virtue and unfulfilled desire. Rich with popular tales such as The Emperor's New Clothes and The Ugly Duckling , this revelatory new collection contains many later, darker and rarely collected stories, such as Auntie Toothache and The Shadow , in which a man's shadow slyly takes over his life. This sparkling new translation captures the eccentric charm of Andersen's original, colloquial Danish style as never before. The introduction vividly describes his changing style and there are notes on every tale. Truly scrumptious, a proper treasury...Read on with eyes as big as teacups . ( Guardian ). This translation gives me, for the first time, a real sense of the range and variety of Andersen's style . (A.S. Byatt). There have been some capable versions in English, but Tiina Nunnally's seems to me the best. Jackie Wullschlager's introduction will be of enormous value . (Harold Bloom).

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  Hardcover
  1992

  $15.57

  Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales originally appeared in batches each Christmas in the mid-19th century, and Spink's English translation was first published in 1960. This edition has Heath Robinson's illustrations, dating from 1899.