Fairy Tales
$26.17
- Paperback
496 pages
- Release Date
24 November 2005
Summary
The Black Classics edition of our glorious new translation and selection of 30 tales to mark the 200 year anniversary of Andersen’s birth in 2005.
With this new translation and selection, the unique inventiveness of Andersen’s genius is revealed. At a time when children’s stories were formal, moral and didactic, Hans Christian Andersen revolutionized the genre, giving an anarchic twist to traditional folklore and creating a huge number of utterly original stories that sprang directly …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140448931 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140448934 |
| Author: | Hans Christian Andersen, Jackie Wullschläger, Tiina Nunnally |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 496 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 24 November 2005 |
| Weight: | 346g |
| Dimensions: | 199mm x 130mm x 24mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
About The Author
Hans Christian Andersen
Hans Christian Andersen (Author)
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.
Jackie Wullschlager (External Editor)
Jackie Wullschlager is Chief Art Critic of the Financial Times. Her books include the prize-winning Hans Christian Andersen- The Life of a Storyteller (2000) and Chagall- Love and Exile (2008), which won the Spear’s Biography of the Year Award and was shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Duff Cooper Prize. She lives in London.
Tiina Nunnally (Translator)
Tiina Nunnally is an award-winning translator (from Danish, Norwegian and Swedish) and novelist. She was awarded the prestigious PEN Translation Prize in 2001 for her translation of the third volume of Sigrid Undset’s Kristin Lavransdatter, and her translations of Hans Christian Andersen and Tove Ditlevsen for Penguin Classics have been widely praised.
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