Hans Christian Andersen was the profoundly imaginative writer and storyteller who revolutionized literature for children. He gave us the now standard versions of some traditional fairy tales - with an anarchic twist - but many of his most famous tales sprang directly from his imagination. The thirty stories here range from exuberant early works such as 'The Tinderbox' and 'The Emperor's New Clothes' through poignant masterpieces such as 'The Little Mermaid', 'The Little Match Girl' and 'The Ugly Duckling', to more subversive later tales such as 'The Ice Maiden' and 'The Dryad'.
This is the classic translation by Jean Hersholt.
Illustrated by various artists, with an Afterword by Ned Halley.
- ISBN10 1907360255
- ISBN13 9781907360251
- Publish Date 1 September 2011 (first published 15 July 1987)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 16 October 2016
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Pan Macmillan
- Imprint Macmillan Collector's Library
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 464
- Language English