Fairy Tales (De Luxe Classics S)

by HCAndersen (Author)

• Used

  Hardcover
  1977

  $25.32

• Used

  Paperback
  1988

  $3.53

• Used

  Hardcover
  2004

  $6.78

• New

  Paperback
  2005

  $12.88

  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).

• New

  Hardcover
  2004

  $24.74

  A new selection of 30 tales to mark the 200 year anniversary of Andersen's birth in 2005. Tiina Nunnally's sparkling translation captures the rawness and immediacy of Andersen's style, for the first time enabling English readers to be as startled and amazed as his original readers were, and revealing the unique inventiveness of Andersen's genius. At a time when children's stories were formal, moral and didactic, Hans Christian Andersen revolutionized the genre, giving an anarchic twist to traditional folklore and creating a huge number of utterly original stories that sprang directly from his imagination. From the exuberant early stories such as The Emperor's New Clothes', though poignant masterpieces such as The Little Mermaid' and The Ugly Duckling', to the darker, more subversive later tales written for adults, the stories included here are endlessly experimental, both humorous and irreverent, sorrowful and strange. This book beautifully illustrated with a selection of Andersen's amazing paper cut-outs - will bring these magical tales to life for readers of any age.