Books with title Tales from Hans Andersen: Peng2:Tales Hans Andersen Bk/Cass

This unique new edition is translated by Susannah Mary Paull, (60 tales) and illustrated by Gordon Browne (with 54 original illustrations). Hans Christian Andersen (often referred to in Scandinavia as H. C. Andersen; April 2, 1805 – August 4, 1875) was a Danish author and poet. Although a prolific writer of plays, travelogues, novels, and poems, Andersen is best remembered for his fairy tales. Andersen's popularity is not limited to children; his stories—called eventyr, or "fairy-tales"—express themes that transcend age and nationality.Andersen's fairy tales, of which no fewer than 3381 works 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. Some of his most famous fairy tales include "The Emperor's New Clothes", "The Little Mermaid", "The Nightingale", "The Snow Queen", "The Ugly Duckling", "The Little Match Girl", "Thumbelina", and many others. His stories have inspired ballets, plays, and animated and live-action films. One of Copenhagen's widest and busiest boulevards is named "H.C. Andersens Boulevard".

This is a Stage 1 title in a series which contains some of the best classic stories beautifully retold in English and illustrated in full color. The series is graded in four stages: Stage 1 - 500 word vocabulary, Stage 2 - 750 words, Stage 3 - 1300 words and Stage 4 - 1800 words. Each book includes an introduction to the author and story, a glossary of new words, and exercise material (comprehension and discussion questions). The series is intended for English language learners but should also be of interest to children and to readers who have learning difficulties.

Excerpt from Fairy Tales From Hans AndersenAmong such no name has higher honour than that of Hans Christian Andersen, some outline of whose life, a lovely story, happy and full of incident, as he speaks of it in his delightful, ingenuous autobiography, may fitly preface this selection from his masterpieces.He was born on April 2, 1805, at Odense (so-called as a traditional dwelling-place of Odin - some said that the god had been burgomaster there I), a town on the island of Punen, in Denmark. His parents were poor folk, and his education was so imperfect that up to his eighteenth year he could neither spell correctly nor write grammatically. His father, compelled by family misfortunes to take to shoemaking, was a man of dreamy type, withal a lover of books and of nature. He lived for me, says Andersen, making the little fellow the companion of his rambles, and feasting him on such reading as the slender shelves afforded, chiefly that of the plays of Holberg, a great writer of comedy, and the Arabian Nzg/its. When Hans was eleven years old.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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