![]() ![]() ![]() Unlike the Brothers Grimm, who collected and retold folklore, Andersen adopted the most ancient literary forms of the fairy tale and the folktale and distilled them into a genre that was uniquely his own. The fairy tales Hans Christian Andersen wrote, such as The Snow Queen, The Ugly Duckling, The Red Shoes, and The Nightingale, are remarkable for their sense of fantasy, power of description, and acute sensitivity, and they are like no others written before or since. ![]() The mouse carried water, made the fire, and set the table. The bird's task was to fly into the forest every day to fetch wood. They kept house together, and for a long time they lived in peace and prosperity, acquiring many possessions. Recognizing the literary merit of Andersen's own simple colloquial language, which Victorian translators and their imitators very often altered to sentimentalize or vulgarize, translator Erik Haugaard has remained faithful to the original text. Once upon a time a mouse, a bird, and a sausage formed a partnership. Perraults fairy tales established the versions of Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Little Red Riding-Hood, and others that we know today, and also include the verse tales Griselda, Three Silly Wishes, and the notorious Donkey-Skin. ![]() This definitive collection of work from Hans Christian Andersen-one of the immortals of world literature-not only includes his own notes to his stories but is the only version available in trade paperback that presents Andersen's fairy tales exactly as he collected them in the original Danish edition of 1874. The only complete edition of all Perraults tales both in prose and verse, in a translation by Christopher Betts. ![]()
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