Presents 156 tales accompanied by the author's notes on the background of his stories.
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.
George MacDonald occupied a major position in the intellectual life of his Victorian contemporaries. This volume brings together all eleven of his shorter fairy stories as well as his essay "The Fantastic Imagination".
he Pea”—even Little Mermaid,” for those “The who Emperor's have not New read Clothes,” the originals, “The the Princess stories on and the themes in the work of Hans Christian Andersen resonate with us, repeated in movies, television, ...
Co-ordinated to Aarne's index then were published a series of special catalogues for a number of folk traditions: Finnish, Estho- nian, Finnish-Swedish, Flemish, Norwegian, Lapp, Livonian, Ruma- nian, Hungarian, Icelandic, Spanish, ...
Now they realized that the king had devised something evil and meant to suffocate them. “He won't succeed!” said the man with the cap. “I'm going to let a frost come that will put the fire to shame and send it crawling away.
They are the stories we've known since we were children. "Rapunzel." "Hansel and Gretel." "Cinderella." "Sleeping Beauty.
More than 156 of the great Dane's best-loved fairy tales.
Like Ellis, Rölleke studied the Grimms' editing history, which suggested that the tales came not from peasants via oral ... A New History (2009) and Valerie Paradiz's Clever Maids: The Secret History of the Grimm Fairy Tales (2005), ...
A new translation of 239 fairy tales collected by the Brothers Grimm. Also includes a listing of their oral and/or literary sources.
The master of wit and irony Published here alongside their evocative original illustrations, these fairy tales, as Oscar Wilde himself explained, were written “partly for children, and partly for those who have kept the childlike ...