The Complete Fairy Tales and Stories

Hans Christian Andersen

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Aug 9, 1983 - Fiction - 1120 pages

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.

Contents

• 1 THE TINDERBOX: 1
• 2 LITTLE CLAUS AND BIG CLAUS: 8
• 3 THE PRINCESS AND THE PEA: 20
• 4 LITTLE IDAS FLOWERS: 22
• 5 INCHELINA: 29
• 6 THE NAUGHTY BOY: 38
• 7 THE TRAVELING COMPANION: 40
• 8 THE LITTLE MERMAID: 57
• 9 THE EMPERORS NEW CLOTHES: 77
• 10 THE MAGIC GALOSHES: 82
• 11 THE DAISY: 108
• 12 THE STEADFAST TIN SOLDIER: 112
• THE WILD SWANS: 117
• 14 THE GARDEN OF EDEN: 132
• 15 THE FLYING TRUNK: 145
• 16 THE STORKS: 151
• 17 THE BRONZE PIG: 156
• 18 THE PACT OF FRIENDSHIP: 167
• 19 A ROSE FROM HOMERS GRAVE: 175
• 20 THE SANDMAN: 177
• 21 THE ROSE ELF: 188
• 22 THE SWINEHERD: 193
• 23 THE BUCKWHEAT: 198
• 24 THE ANGEL: 200
• 25 THE NIGHTINGALE: 203
• 26 THE SWEETHEARTS: 213
• 27 THE UGLY DUCKLING: 216
• 28 THE PINE TREE: 225
• 29 THE SNOW QUEEN: 234
• 30 MOTHER ELDERBERRY: 263
• THE DARNING NEEDLE: 271
• 32 THE BELL: 275
• GRANDMOTHER: 280
• THE HILL OF THE ELVES: 282
• 35 THE RED SHOES: 289
• 36 THE JUMPING COMPETITION: 295
• 37 THE SHEPHERDESS AND THE CHIMNEY SWEEP: 297
• HOLGER THE DANE: 302
• 39 THE LITTLE MATCH GIRL: 306
• 40 FROM THE RAMPARTS OF THE CITADEL: 309
• 41 FROM A WINDOW IN VARTOV: 311
• 42 THE OLD STREET LAMP: 313
• 43 THE NEIGHBORS: 320
• 44 LITTLE TUCK: 330
• 45 THE SHADOW: 334
• 46 THE OLD HOUSE: 346
• 47 A DROP OF WATER: 354
• 48 THE HAPPY FAMILY: 356
• 49 THE STORY OF A MOTHER: 360
• 50 THE COLLAR: 366
• 51 THE FLAX: 369
• THE BIRD PHOENIX: 374
• 53 A STORY: 376
• THE SILENT ALBUM: 381
• 55 THE OLD GRAVESTONE: 383
• 56 THERE IS A DIFFERENCE: 386
• 57 THE WORLDS MOST BEAUTIFUL ROSE: 390
• 58 THE YEARS STORY: 393
• 59 ON THE LAST DAY: 401
• 60 IT IS PERFECTLY TRUE: 405
• 61 THE SWANS NEST: 408
• 62 A HAPPY DISPOSITION: 410
• 63 GRIEF: 414
• 64 EVERYTHING IN ITS RIGHT PLACE: 416
• 65 THE PIXY AND THE GROCER: 424
• 66 THE MILLENNIUM: 428
• 67 UNDER THE WILLOW TREE: 431
• 68 five peas FROM THE SAME POD: 445
• 69 A LEAF FROM HEAVEN: 449
• 70 SHE WAS NO GOOD: 452
• 71 THE LAST PEARL: 459
• 72 THE TWO MAIDENS: 462
• 73 THE UTTERMOST PARTS OF THE SEA: 464
• 74 THE PIGGY BANK: 466
• 75 IB AND LITTLE CHRISTINA: 469
• 76 CLOD HANS: 479
• 77 THE THORNY PATH: 483
• 78 THE SERVANT: 487
• 79 THE BOTTLE: 492
• 80 THE PHILOSOPHERS STONE: 501
• 81 HOW TO COOK SOUP UPON A SAUSAGE PIN: 516
• 82 THE PEPPERMANS NIGHTCAP: 528
• SOMETHING: 539
• 84 THE OLD OAK TREES LAST DREAM: 545
• 85 THE TALISMAN: 550
• 86 THE BOG KINGS DAUGHTER: 553
• 87 THE WINNERS: 585
• 88 THE BELL DEEP: 588
• 89 THE EVIL KING: 592
• 90 WHAT THE WIND TOLD ABOUT VALDEMAR DAAE AND HIS DAUGHTERS: 595
• 91 THE GIRL WHO STEPPED ON BREAD: 606
• 92 THE WATCHMAN OF THE TOWER: 614
• 93 ANNE LISBETH: 620
• CHILDRENS PRATTLE: 630
• A STRING OF PEARLS: 633
• THE PEN AND THE INKWELL: 639
• 97 THE DEAD CHILD: 642
• 98 THE COCK AND THE WEATHERCOCK: 647
• LOVELY: 650
• 100 A STORY FROM THE DUNES: 657
• 101 THE PUPPETEER: 689
• THE TWO BROTHERS: 694
• THE OLD CHURCH BELL: 696
• 104 THE TWELVE PASSENGERS: 701
• 105 THE DUNG BEETLE: 705
• 106 WHAT FATHER DOES IS ALWAYS RIGHT: 713
• 107 THE SNOWMAN: 718
• 108 IN THE DUCKYARD: 723
• 109 THE MUSE OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: 729
• 110 THE ICE MAIDEN: 735
• 111 THE BUTTERFLY: 782
• 112 PSYCHE: 785
• THE SNAIL AND THE ROSEBUSH: 796
• 114 THE WILLOTHEWISPS ARE IN TOWN SAID THE BOG WITCH: 799
• 115 THE WINDMILL: 812
• THE SILVER SHILLING: 815
• 117 THE BISHOP OF BØRGLUM CLOISTER AND HIS KINSMEN: 820
• IN THE CHILDRENS ROOM: 827
• THE GOLDEN TREASURE: 832
• 120 HOW THE STORM CHANGED THE SIGNS: 840
• THE TEAPOT: 845
• 122 THE SONGBIRD OF THE PEOPLE: 847
• THE LITTLE GREEN ONES: 851
• 124 THE PIXY AND THE GARDENERS WIFE: 853
• 125 PEITER PETER AND PEER: 857
• HIDDEN BUT NOT FORGOTTEN: 862
• THE JANITORS SON: 865
• 128 MOVING DAY: 882
• THE SNOWDROP: 886
• 130 AUNTIE: 890
• THE TOAD: 896
• GODFATHERS PICTURE BOOK: 903
• 133 THE RAGS: 925
• 134 THE TWO ISLANDS: 927
• 135 WHO WAS THE HAPPIEST?: 929
• THE WOOD NYMPH: 934
• 137 THE FAMILY OF HENGRETHE: 954
• 138 THE ADVENTURES OF A THISTLE: 967
• 139 A QUESTION OF IMAGINATION: 971
• 140 LUCK CAN BE FOUND IN A STICK: 975
• 141 THE COMET: 978
• 142 THE DAYS OF THE WEEK: 982
• 143 THE SUNSHINES STORY: 984
• GREATGRANDFATHER: 987
• THE CANDLES: 992
• THE MOST INCREDIBLE: 995
• 147 WHAT THE WHOLE FAMILY SAID: 999
• 148 DANCE DANCE DOLLY MINE: 1002
• IT IS YOU THE FABLE IS ABOUT: 1004
• 150 THE GREAT SEA SERPENT: 1006
• 151 THE GARDENER AND HIS MASTER: 1015
• 152 THE PROFESSOR AND THE FLEA: 1022
• 153 THE STORY OLD JOHANNA TOLD: 1026
• THE FRONT DOOR KEY: 1039
• 155 THE CRIPPLE: 1049
• 156 AUNTIE TOOTHACHE: 1058
• Translators Note: 1068
• Authors Preface and Notes: 1069
• Index: 1097

About the author

Hans Christian Andersen (1805—75) was born in Odense, Denmark, the son of a poor shoemaker, who nonetheless was a great reader, made a toy-theatre for his son and taught him to notice every natural wonder as they walked in the woods together on Sundays. His father died when he was eleven, and it wasn't until six years later that, with the help of a patron, he finally went to a state secondary school attended by much youger children. There he suffered at the hands of a cruel headmaster, but he aquired an education and was determined to be a writer. He published his first novel and his first fairy tales in 1835; thereafter he wrote over 150 more of these stories which have become classics in many languages.

A lonely man who never married, he was also an anxious man; he loved travelling, but would carry a coil of rope with him in case of fire in his hotel. Although he originally addressed his fairy tales to children (and some would maintain he had a streak of childhood in his nature) he insisted they were 'for all ages', and the gentleness and humor that are their characteristics are recognized by everyone.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Complete Fairy Tales and Stories; Volume 0 of The Anchor folktale library
• Author: Hans Christian Andersen
• Translated by: Erik Christian Haugaard
• Contributor: Virginia Haviland
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1983
• ISBN: 0385189516, 9780385189514
• Length: 1120 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Classics; Fiction / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology; Fiction / Short Stories (single author)