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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...
What would it be like if you were tiny enough to sleep in a walnut shell, or travel on the back of a swallow? Well that's just what Thumbelina does, because she is a magic child who grew from a barley seed and is only as tall as a thumb!
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"The Tinderbox" is written by Hans Christian Andersen 1835. The fairy tale is one of the first of Hans Christian Andersen´s many fairy tales to be published.Fully illustrated with the wonderful drawings made by Gustav Hjortlund.Hans Christian Anders...
The prince is looking for a true princess to be his wife, but all the girls he meets are too rude, too vain or too greedy. One stormy night a young lady knocks on the palace door claiming to be a princess, so the queen decides to put her to the te...
A vain emperor who cares about nothing except wearing and displaying clothes hires weavers who promise him they will make him the best suit of clothes. The weavers are con-men who convince the emperor they are using a fine fabric invisible to anyone ...
Discover the original Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale that inspired the classic Disney movie!This stunningly romantic interpretation features whimsical illustrations that will delight young readers, 7-10.Six young sisters live in the depths of the...
The story is set in Copenhagen. A group of guests are holding a large party. During the festivity Counciler of Justice Knap argues that the Middle Ages were a time better than their own, more specifically the time of King Hans. Suddenly two fairies a...
"The Steadfast Tin Soldier is the first story Andersen wrote without a folktale source or literary model, so it stands as a completely original work of the imagination, which changed the fairytale genre for all time.There were once five-and-twenty t...
From the Golden Book archives comes a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, gloriously illustrated by Gordon Laite in the late 1960s but never published until now! Gordon Laite’s breathtaking artwork for a Little Golden Book edition of the...
Recreated from the Hans Christian Andersen story, The Nightingale tells the tale of a nightingale''s singing voice. It is so beautiful that it even warms the heart of Death itself. Sure to move the hearts of readers, the book is beautifully illust...
This volume of the Golden Age of Illustration Series contains Hans Christian Andersen's most famous tale 'The Ugly Duckling', first published in May of 1859. This classic fairy tale has been continuously in print in different editions since its first...
In the woods stands a little fir-tree. He is preoccupied with growing up and is thoroughly embarrassed when a hare hops over him, an act which emphasizes his diminutiveness. The women call him the baby of the forest and again he is embarrassed and fr...
THE SNOW QUEEN: Modern English THIS EDITION: The English edition is a new translation from French. The English translation is in a segmented format as part of a ‘2Language Books’ dual-language project. The story was originally written in Danish. ...
The “Shepherdess and the Chimney Sweep” is a literary fairy tale by Danish poet and author Hans Christian Andersen (1805"1875). The tale follows the romance between a china shepherdess and a china chimney sweep who are threatened by a carved ma...
The luminous art of three-time Caldecott Honor recipient Jerry Pinkney transforms the nineteenth-century Danish girl of Andersen's tale into a child plucked straight from America's melting pot, shedding new light on the invisibility of the poor among...
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...
In this bleak fairytale, a kind and good-natured learned man on vacation sends his shadow to investigate a balcony across the street. When his shadow never returns, he notices that he has grown a new one and figures all is well. However, five years...
Rudy, a boy who lost both his parents and goes to live with his uncle. The reader is first introduced to Rudy as he sells toy houses made by his grandfather. Rudy grows up to become a skilled mountain climber and huntsman. He has fallen in love with ...
Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales are like exquisite jewels, drawing from us gasps of recognition and delight. Andersen created intriguing and unique characters - a tin soldier with only one leg but a big heart, a beetle nestled deep in a horse's...
This collection of children's stories includes: The Old House, The Drop of Water, The Happy Family, The story of a Mother, The False Collar, The Shadow, The Old Street-Lam, The Dream of Little Tuk, The Naughty Boy, The Two Neighboring Families, The ...
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefo...
Collection of some of the greatest short stories, with works by authors including Charles Dickens, Hans Christian Andersen, Charles W. Moore, Henry Cabot Lodge, Mary Austin, Ralph Connor, Washington Irving, the Brothers Grimm, and many many others....
There is a happiness which no poet has yet properly sung, which no lady-reader, let her be ever so amiable, has experienced or ever will experience in this world. This is a condition of happiness which alone belongs to the male sex, and even then alo...
It is a delightful spring: the birds warble, but you do not understand their song? Well, hear it in a free translation....
Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of Rudy and Babette - Or, Capture of The Eagle's Nest. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many years, back in print.
This is a new an...
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and...
Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) was a Danish author and poet, most famous for his fairy tales. Most English (as well as German and French) sources use the name "Hans Christian Andersen," but in Denmark and the rest of Scandinavia he is usually re...
There was once an Emperor who had a horse shod with gold. He had a golden shoe on each foot, and why was this? He was a beautiful creature, with slender legs, bright, intelligent eyes, and a mane that hung down over his neck like a veil. He had carri...
In the narrow streets of a large town people often heard in the evening, when the sun was setting, and his last rays gave a golden tint to the chimney-pots, a strange noise which resembled the sound of a church bell; it only lasted an instant, for it...
Close to the corner of a street, among other abodes of poverty, stood an exceedingly tall, narrow house, which had been so knocked about by time that it seemed out of joint in every direction. This house was inhabited by poor people, but the deepest ...
This classic Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale was first published in Copenhagen in 1838. The story of a one-legged tin soldier and his love for a paper ballerina was originally published in this beautifully illustrated edition circa 1895 by McLough...
This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic, timeless works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them....
We are in the midst of Paris, in a great hotel. Blooming flowers ornament the staircases, and soft carpets the floors. Our room is a very cosy one, and through the open balcony door we have a view of a great square. Spring lives down there; it has co...
The Elf of The Rose is one of seventeen fairy tales featured in this collection of stories by Hans Christian Andersen. The Elf lives inside a beautiful rose-tree in full blossom. He is such a little wee thing, that no human eye could see him. During ...
The Emperor and his court in ancient China discover a little gray bird with an enchanting song. But when the Emperor is presented with a jewel-encrusted artificial singing bird, he banishes the nightingale from his court. Years later, he realizes tha...
Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - Many years ago, there was an Emperor, who was so excessively fond of new clothes, that...
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and...
A new collection of the best-known tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Denmark’s most famous storyteller. whose tales have been translated and told all around the world. This collection is exquisitely illustrated by the Russian artist Anastasiya Arch...
There was once a merchant who was so rich that he could have paved the whole street with gold, and would even then have had enough for a small alley. But he did not do so; he knew the value of money better than to use it in this way. So clever was he...
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The drummer's wife went into the church. She saw the new altar with the painted pictures and the carved angels. Those upon the canvas and in the glory over the altar were just as beautiful as the carved ones; and they were painted and gilt into the b...
Follow the adventures of the little Christmas tree as he grows up in the middle of the forest and wonders where the taller trees go when they get chopped down. Just before Christmas, a family of bears find the little tree. They carefully dig hi...
Little Claus and Big Claus is a literary fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen first published in Copenhagen, Denmark on 1835.
Big Claus is rich, Little Claus is poor, and they both live in the same village. Little Claus makes the mistake ...
Hans Christian Andersen 1805 - 1875 From a humble childhood, the writer Hans Christian Andersen became one of the world's best loved story tellers. Here is one of his earlier stories ‘Little Ida's Flowers’ that was first published in 1835. Little...
A true classic of Western literature, Stories and Tales by Hans Christian Andersen, arguably the most notable children's writer of all, has delighted young and old for generations. This unique collection was first translated for George Routledge over...
Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) was a Danish author and poet, most famous for his fairy tales. Most English (as well as German and French) sources use the name "Hans Christian Andersen", but in Denmark and the rest of Scandinavia he is usually re...
From a humble childhood, the writer Hans Christian Andersen became one of the world's best loved story tellers. Here is one of his earlier stories ‘The Travelling Companion’ that was first published in 1835. The Travelling Companion... POOR John ...
In addition to the fairy tales for which he was so well known, Hans Christian Andersen published several novels including "The Two Baronesses" (1848), "Be or Not to Be" (1857), and "Lucky Peter" (1870). There is a good deal of autobiographical materi...
The dear old Moon befriends an artist and appears to tell him of one thing or another that he has seen on the previous night or on that same evening. The Moon prompts the artist to paint the scenes described, and so their friendship continues. What t...