Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales

byHans Christian Andersen, Naomi Lewis (Translator), Jan Pienkowski (Introducer)

Retold by Naomi Lewis

A beautiful clothbound hardback gift edition of the world's most celebrated fairy tales.

Every man's life is a fairy tale, written by God's fingers - Hans Christian Andersen

A delightful selection of stories from Hans Christian Andersen, translated by the eminent writer and critic, Naomi Lewis. All the best-known and most-loved stories are included - 'Thumbelina', 'The Snow Queen', 'The Emperor's New Clothes', as well as the less familiar - 'The Goblin at the Grocer's' and 'Dance, Dolly, Dance'.

Puffin Clothbound Classics is a series of much-loved stories from classic children's literature, brought together by Puffin Books in beautiful hardback volumes.
The Puffin Classics series is a perfect marriage of the old and the new. Enjoy some of the best books from the past and find out why and how they inspired some of the best writers of the present
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About Hans Christian Andersen

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.
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