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Hans Christian Andersen

Denmark (1805 - 1875)

About Hans Christian Andersen

HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN (1805-1875), Danish writer of fairy tales, poet, novelist and dramatist. A skilled writer in all these genres, Hans Christian Andersen owes his worldwide fame to his fairy stories. Always popular with children, the 168 tales contain a mature wisdom together with whimsy. Andersen invested stories of folk and legendary origin with moral and symbolic significance. His tales appeared from 1835 to 1872.

Non fiction

The Story of My Life (1871)

Anthologies containing stories by Hans Christian Andersen

Black Water (1984)
Great Short Stories of the World (1986)
Fantastic Tales: Visionary and Everyday (1993)

Short stories

	The Emperor's New Clothes (1837)
	The Little Sea Maid (1837)
	The Little Match Girl (1848)
	The Shadow (1930)
	The Angel
	Anne Lisbeth
	Athens
	The Beetle
	The Bell
	The Bell-Deep
	The Bird of Popular Song
	Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors
	The Bond of Friendship
	The Bosphorus
	The Bottle-Neck
	The Bronze Pig
	The Buckwheat
	The Butterfly
	By the Almshouse Window
	The Carnival in Rome
	Charming
	The Child in the Grave
	Children's Prattle
	The Constant Tin-Soldier
	The Cripple
	The Daisy
	The Darning-Needle
	Days in the Mediterranean
	The Drop of Water
	The Dryad
	The Dumb Book
	The Elder-Tree Mother
	The Elf-Hill
	Everything in its Right Place
	The False Collar
	The Farm-Yard Cock and the Weather-Cock
	The Fellow Travellers
	The Fir Tree
	Five out of One Shell
	The Flax
	The Flying Trunk
	The Garden of Paradise
	The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf
	The Goblin and the Huckster
	The Golden Treasure
	The Goloshes of Fortune
	Good Humour
	Grandmother
	The Graveyard at Scutari
	Great Claus and Little Claus
	A Great Grief
	Grief of Heart
	The Happy Family
	The Hardy Tin Soldier
	Holger Danske
	Ib and Christine
	The Ice Maiden
	In a Thousand Years
	In Sweden
	In the Duck-Yard
	In the Nursery
	In the Uttermost Parts of the Sea
	'It's Quite True'
	Jack the Dullard
	The Jewish Girl
	The Jumper
	The Last Dream of the Old Oak Tree
	The Last Pearl
	A Leaf from the Sky
	The Leaping Match
	The Legend of Nurnberg Castle
	Little Ida's Flowers
	Little Tuk
	The Loveliest Rose in the World
	The Lovers
	Mahomet's Birthday
	The Marsh King's Daughter
	The Metal Pig
	The Money-Pig
	Mother Elder
	The Naughty Boy
	The Neighbouring Families
	The Neighbours
	A Night in the Apennines
	The Nightingale
	The Old Bachelor's Nightcap
	The Old Church Bell
	The Old Gravestone
	The Old House
	Old Luk-Oie
	The Old Street Lamp
	Ole the Tower-Keeper
	Our Aunt
	The Pen and Inkstand
	The Phoenix Bird
	A Picture from the Castle Ramparts
	A Picture from the Fortress Wall
	The Pigs
	The Porter's Son
	Poultry Meg's Family
	The Princess on the Pea
	The Psyche
	The Puppet Showman
	Put Off is Not Done with
	'Quite True'
	The Racers
	The Real Princess
	The Red Shoes
	A Rose from the Grave of Homer
	The Rose-Elf
	She was Good for Nothing
	The Shepherdess and the Chimney-Sweeper
	The Shirt Collar
	The Shoes of Fortune
	The Silver Shilling
	The Snail and the Rose Tree
	The Snow Man
	The Snow Queen
	The Snowdrop
	Something
	Soup on a Sausage-Peg
	The Stone of the Wise Men
	The Storks
	The Storm Shakes the Shield
	A Story from the Sand-Dunes
	The Story of a Mother
	The Story of My Life
	The Story of the Year
	The Swan's Nest
	The Swineherd
	'There is a Difference'
	The Thistle's Experiences
	The Thorny Road of Honour
	A Thousand Years Hence
	Thumbelina
	The Tinder-Box
	The Toad
	Tommelise
	The Top and the Ball
	The Travelling Companion
	Twelve by the Mail
	Two Brothers
	Two Maidens
	The Ugly Duckling
	Under the Willow Tree
	What One Can Invent
	What the Moon Saw
	What the Old Man Does is Always Right
	The Wicked Prince
	The Wild Swans
	'The Will-o'-the-Wisp is in the Town', Says the Moor-Woman
	The Wind Tells About Waldemar Daa and His Daughters
	The Windmill
	The World's Fairest Rose

Books about Hans Christian Andersen

Hans Christian Andersen (1970) by Rumer Godden
The Young Hans Christian Andersen (2005) by Karen Hesse

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