Andersen's bittersweet fairy tales propelled their troubled author to international fame and revolutionized children's writing.
Includes tales such as 'The Steadfast Tin Soldier' and 'Big Klaus and Little Klaus'.
Andersen's bittersweet fairy tales propelled their troubled author to international fame and revolutionized children's writing.
Includes tales such as 'The Steadfast Tin Soldier' and 'Big Klaus and Little Klaus'.
Little Black Classics - the new series to celebrate Penguin's 80th anniversary'There sat the dog with eyes as big as mill wheels'Though criticised for their anarchic immorality when first published, Hans Christian Andersen's tales made him an international star, taken to the hearts of children and adults for their beauty, sorrow and strangeness.
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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