the complete hans christian andersen fairy tales

Second Booklet ( Eventyr, fortalte for Børn. Second Booklet įairy Tales Told for Children. Able then to speak, she tells her story and the king marries her.įairy Tales Told for Children. When suspicions are aroused that she is a witch, she is sentenced to death but rescues her brothers at the last moment. ' The Wild Swans' ('De vilde svaner'), a princess mutely undergoes the most dreadful trials in order to free her eleven brothers from a spell cast by an evil queen.They perish together he is melted into a tin heart. A boy throws the soldier into the fire and a draught carries the ballerina to his side. Eventually he is returned to the parlor table where still stands the ballerina. He falls from the parlor window, and, after sailing in a paper boat down a storm drain, is swallowed by a fish. ' The Steadfast Tin Soldier' ('Den standhaftige tinsoldat') is the story of a tin soldier who loves a paper ballerina.

She alone loved the lark, took joy in his song, and felt his suffering as her own. When he dies and is given an elaborate funeral by the children, she is cast into the road and forgotten. 'The Daisy' ('Gåseurten') tells of happy little daisy who is taken up with a plot of earth to line the bottom of a bird cage where a lark is held captive.Was published on 2 October 1838 and contained three tales: First Booklet ( Eventyr, fortalte for Børn. 'The Steadfast Tin Soldier' illustration by Vilhelm Pedersen, Andersen‘s first illustrator (1850)įairy Tales Told for Children.

The complete hans christian andersen fairy tales