Books published by publisher Hans Christian Andersen

This book contains the complete Andersen's 127 fairy tales and stories in the chronological order of their original publication. Hans Christian Andersen was a Danish author and poet. Although a prolific writer of plays, travelogues, novels, and poems, Andersen is best remembered for his fairy tales, a literary genre he so mastered that he himself has become as mythical as the tales he wrote. Andersen's popularity is not limited to children; his stories—called eventyrs, or "fantastic tales"—express themes that transcend age and nationality. During his lifetime he was acclaimed for having delighted children worldwide and was feted by royalty. Andersen's fairy tales, which have been translated into more than 125 languages, have become culturally embedded in the West's collective consciousness, readily accessible to children, but presenting lessons of virtue and resilience in the face of adversity for mature readers as well. They have inspired motion pictures, plays, ballets, and animated films.

Andersen’s Fairy Tales: 18 Stories with 26 Illustrations and a Free Audio File.This book holds 18 of the Danish author Hans Christian Andersen’s most popular fairy tales. For 150 years his stories have been delighting both adults and children. Packed with a light-hearted whimsy combined with a mature wisdom they are as entrancing as ever.Andersen put many pieces of his own life into his fairy tales. For example, he never forgot that his mother as a young girl had been forced to go begging. This led him to write “The Little Match Girl.” And his personal experiences are reflected in “The Ugly Duckling.”Contents:1. The Emperor’s New Clothes2. The Swineherd3. The Real Princess4. The Shoes of FortuneI. A BeginningII. What Happened to the CouncillorIII. The Watchman’s AdventureIV. A Moment of Head Importance—An Evening’s “Dramatic Readings”—A Most Strange JourneyV. Metamorphosis of the Copying-ClerkVI. The Best That the Galoshes Gave5. The Fir Tree6. The Snow QueenFirst Story: Which Treats of a Mirror and of the SplintersSecond Story: A Little Boy and a Little GirlThird story: Of the Flower-Garden at the Old Woman’s Who Understood WitchcraftFourth Story: The Prince and PrincessFifth Story: The Little Robber MaidenSixth Story: The Lapland Woman and the Finland WomanSeventh Story: What Took Place in the Palace of the Snow Queen, and what Happened Afterward7. The Leap-Frog8. The Elderbush9. The Bell10. The Old House11. The Happy Family12. The Story of a Mother13. The False Collar14. The Shadow15. The Little Match Girl16. The Dream of Little Tuk17. The Naughty Boy18. The Red ShoesHighlights of this edition are:•18 short stories.•26 illustration and photos.•A free web link, to an audio copy of the complete book.•It is formatted for ease of use and enjoyment on your kindle reader.•An active (easy to use) Table of Contents listing every chapter accessible from the kindle "go to" feature.•Perfect formatting in rich text compatible with Kindle's Text-to-Speech features.•Plus, About the Author section.•276 pages (in the kindle format) for a very low price.This book is unabridged and appears as it was first published in 1926.

CHAPTER I.LITTLE RUDY. ET us now go to Switzerland, and see its wonderful mountains, whose steep, rocky sides are covered with trees. We will climb up to the fields of snow, and then make our way down to the grassy valleys, with their countless streams and rivulets, impetuously rushing to lose themselves in the sea. The sunshine is hot in the narrow valley; the snow becomes firm and solid, and in the course of time it either descends as an avalanche, or creeps along as a glacier. There are two of these glaciers in the valleys below the Schreckhorn and the Wetterhorn, near the long village of Grindelwald. They are a remarkable sight, and therefore many travelers from all countries come in the summer to visit them: they come over the high mountains covered with snow, they traverse the deep valleys; and to do this they must climb, hour after hour, leaving the valley far beneath them, till they see it as if they were in an air-balloon. The clouds hang above them like thick mists over the mountains, and the sun's rays make their way through the openings between the clouds to where the brown houses lie spread, lighting up some chance spot with a vivid green. Below, the stream foams and blusters; but above it murmurs and ripples, and looks like a band of silver hanging down the side of the rock.On either side of the path up the mountain lie wooden houses. Each house has its little plot of potatoes; and this they all require, for there are many children, and they all have good appetites. The children come out to meet every stranger, whether walking or riding, and ask him to buy their carved wooden châlets, made like the houses they live in. Be it fine or be it wet, the children try to sell their carvings.About twenty years since you might have seen one little boy standing apart from the others, but evidently very desirous to dispose of his wares. He looked grave and sad, and held his little tray tightly with both hands as if he was afraid of losing it. This serious look and his small size caused him to be much noticed by travelers, who often called him and purchased many of his toys, though he did not know why he was so favored. His grandfather lived two miles off among the mountains, where he did his carving. He had a cabinet full of the things he had made. There were nut-crackers, knives and forks, boxes carved with leaves and chamois, and many toys for children; but little Rudy cared for nothing so much as for an old gun, hanging from a rafter in the ceiling, for his grandfather had told him it should be his own when he was big enough to know how to use it.Though the boy was little, he was set in charge of the goats; and Rudy could climb as high as any of his flock, and was fond of climbing tall trees after birds' nests. He was brave and high-spirited, but he never smiled except when he watched the foaming cataract, or heard the thundering roar of an avalanche. He never joined in the children's games, and only met them when his grandfather sent him to sell his carvings; and this employment Rudy did not much like. He would rather wander alone amongst the mountains, or sit by his grandfather while he told him stories of former ages, or of the people who lived at Meiningen, from whence he had come. He told him they had not always lived there, but had come from a distant northern country called Sweden. Rudy took great pride in this knowledge; but he also learnt much from his four-footed friends. He had a large dog, named Ajola, who had been his father's; and he had also a tom-cat who was his particular friend, for it was from him he had learnt how to climb.