HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.‘It doesn’t matter if you’re born in a duck yard, so long as you are hatched from a swan’s egg!’ (from ‘The Ugly Duckling’)This collection brings together some of Hans Christian Andersen’s most popular fairy tales – including ‘The Little Mermaid’, ‘The Ugly Duckling’ and ‘Thumbelina’ – in a celebration of one of the world’s most widely recognised children’s authors. With universal themes and dark humour at their heart, these moralistic tales have delighted readers since first publication in the nineteenth century and continued to be well loved today.The fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen, a storyteller of great importance to Western literature, have inspired many films, ballets and plays, and entertained generations of children and adults alike.
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Hans Christian Andersen. Selected Fairy Tales
SELECTED FAIRY TALES. Hans Christian Andersen
Copyright
History of Collins
Life & Times
The Danish Dickens
Luck and Perseverance
Fairy Tales
The Ugly Duckling
The Tinder-box
The Elf of the Rose
The Emperor’s New Suit
The Fir Tree
The Ice Maiden. I. Little Rudy
II. The Journey to the New Home
III. The Uncle
IV. Babette
V. On the Way Home
VI. The Visit to the Mill
VII. The Eagle’s Nest
VIII. What Fresh News the Parlour-Cat Had to Tell
IX. The Ice Maiden
X. The Godmother
XI. The Cousin
XII. Evil Powers
XIII. At the Mill
XIV. Night Visions
XV. The Conclusion
The Little Elder-tree Mother
The Little Match-seller
The Little Mermaid
Little Tiny or Thumbelina
The Princess and the Pea
The Money-box
The Nightingale
The Red Shoes
The Snail and the Rose-tree
The Shadow
The Shepherdess and the Sheep
The Snow Queen. In Seven Stories. Story the First. Which describes a looking-glass and the broken fragments
Second Story. A little boy and a little girl
Third Story. The flower garden of the woman who could conjure
Fourth Story. The Prince and Princess
Fifth Story. Little Robber-Girl
Sixth Story. The Lapland Woman and the Finland Woman
Seventh Story. Of the Palace of the Snow Queen and what happened there at last
The Brave Tin Soldier
The Travelling Companion
The Ugly Duckling
The Wild Swans
CLASSIC LITERATURE: WORDS AND PHRASES adapted from the Collins English Dictionary
About the Publisher
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In 1819, millworker William Collins from Glasgow, Scotland, set up a company for printing and publishing pamphlets, sermons, hymn books, and prayer books. That company was Collins and was to mark the birth of HarperCollins Publishers as we know it today. The long tradition of Collins dictionary publishing can be traced back to the first dictionary William published in 1824, Greek and English Lexicon. Indeed, from 1840 onwards, he began to produce illustrated dictionaries and even obtained a licence to print and publish the Bible.
Soon after, William published the first Collins novel, Ready Reckoner; however, it was the time of the Long Depression, where harvests were poor, prices were high, potato crops had failed, and violence was erupting in Europe. As a result, many factories across the country were forced to close down and William chose to retire in 1846, partly due to the hardships he was facing.
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“Hast thou a lover?” asked Rudy; all his thoughts were naturally on love just then.
“I have none,” answered the maiden, with a laugh; it was as if she had not spoken the truth.
