Fairy Tales

Informationen zum Autor Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) was born in Odense, Denmark, son of a shoemaker and a washerwoman. He was the first writer to take the folk tale as a literary genre and create new stories, such as 'The Emperor's New Clothes', 'The Little Mermaid', 'The Ugly Duckling' and 'The Snow Queen'. His influence on children's literature is inestimable, yet his stories work on many levels. He died in Copenhagen in 1875. Jackie Wullschläger is Chief Art Critic of the Financial Times . Her books include the prize-winning Hans Christian Andersen: The Life of a Storyteller (2000) and Chagall: Love and Exile (2008), which won the Spear's Biography of the Year Award and was shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Duff Cooper Prize. She lives in London. Tiina Nunnally is an award-winning translator (from Danish, Norwegian and Swedish) and novelist. She was awarded the prestigious PEN Translation Prize in 2001 for her translation of the third volume of Sigrid Undset's Kristin Lavransdatter , and her translations of Hans Christian Andersen and Tove Ditlevsen for Penguin Classics have been widely praised. Klappentext Contains stories, such as "Auntie Toothache" and "The Shadow", in which a man's shadow slyly takes over his life. In this book, the author conjures up a world of icy queens, match girls and tin soldiers, rewarded virtue and unfulfilled desire. Zusammenfassung Contains stories, such as "Auntie Toothache" and "The Shadow", in which a man's shadow slyly takes over his life. In this book, the author conjures up a world of icy queens, match girls and tin soldiers, rewarded virtue and unfulfilled desire.

Product details

• Authors: Hans Christian Andersen, Andersen Hans Christian, Tiina Nunnally, Jackie Wullschlager
• Assisted by: Jackie Wullschlager (Editor), Jackie Wullschläger (Editor), Tiina Nunnally (Translation), Nunnally Tiina (Translation)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.10.2005
• EAN: 9780140448931
• ISBN: 978-0-14-044893-1
• No. of pages: 496
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 22 mm
• Series: Penguin Classics; Penguin Classics
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books; Fiction > Narrative literature; Classic fiction (pre c 1945), FICTION / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, Classic fiction, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Traditional stories