Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales

by Hans Christian Andersen

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HANS ANDERSEN’S

FAIRY TALES.

 

 

The Fir-tree.

 

 

HANS ANDERSEN’S

FAIRY TALES

 

A NEW TRANSLATION
BY
Mrs. H. B. PAULL,
Editor of “Grimm’s Fairy Tales.”

 

With Original Illustrations,
AND SIXTEEN PAGE PLATES PRINTED IN COLOURS.

 

 

LONDON AND NEW YORK:
FREDERICK WARNE AND CO.

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PUBLISHER’S PREFACE.

This new edition of Hans Andersen contains several additional Fairy Tales, for the first time translated from the Danish by Mrs. Paull, to whose able pen we are indebted for the previous editions. The sixteen Coloured Plates and the Woodcut Illustrations are from the hand of a Danish Artist, who is considered to have an especial gift for depicting the scenes described by his celebrated countryman.

 

 

CONTENTS.

PAGE
The Fir-Tree	1
The Brave Tin Soldier	7
Little Tiny	11
The Goblin and the Huckster	18
A Great Sorrow	21
The Silver Shilling	22
The Ugly Duckling	25
The Roses and the Sparrows	33
Little Tuk	41
Grandmother	44
The Old Gravestone	46
The Bell-Deep	50
The Beetle who went on his Travels	53
Elder-Tree Mother	58
The Nightingale	65
Ole Luk-Oie, the Dream-God	71
The Old Bachelor’s Nightcap	79
The Elf of the Rose	88
The Angel	92
The Pea Blossom	94
Ib and Little Christina	97
The Bottle Neck	106
The Flax	113
The Last Dream of the Old Oak	117
The Girl who Trod on the Loaf	121
The Daisy	126
The Old House	129
The Happy Family	135
The Metal Pig	137
The Emperor’s New Clothes	145
The Last Pearl	149
The Tinder-Box	151
The Red Shoes	156
The Golden Treasure	161
The Butterfly	168
The Dumb Book	170
The Gardener	172
She was Good for Nothing	178
Little Ida’s Flowers	184
The Conceited Apple-Branch	189
The Sunbeam and the Captive	192
The Storks	193
The Philosopher’s Stone	197
The Loveliest Rose in the World	207
The Snow Man	209
The Story of the Year	214
The Story of a Mother	220
The Jewish Maiden	225
The Darning-Needle	229
The Little Match-seller	232
The Travelling Companion	234
The Jumpers	247
The Swineherd	249
A Leaf from Heaven	254
Anne Lisbeth	257
A Cheerful Temper	264
The Top and Ball	268
The Wild Swans	270
Everything in its Right Place	281
The Money-Box	287
The Shadow	289
The Racers	298
It is quite True	300
The Buckwheat	303
Soup from a Sausage Skewer	305
The Bell, or Nature's Music	315
The Farm-yard Cock and the Weather-Cock	319
The Snow Queen	321
The Portuguese Duck	344
The Flying Trunk	348
The Little Mermaid	353
The Pen and the Inkstand	370
What the Moon Saw	373
What the Old Man does is always Right	379
A Rose from Homer's Grave	383
The Garden of Paradise	385
The Mail-Coach Passengers	395
The Mischievous Boy	398
Under the Willow-Tree	401
The Old Man and the Angel	412
Little Claus and Big Claus	417
The Shepherdess and the Sweep	426
The Puppet-Show Man	430
The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship	433
The Old Street Lamp	439
The Old Church Bell	445
The Mother's Love	449
The Shirt Collar	453
Children’s Prattle	455
Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind	457
The Story of the Wind	462
A Story	470
Something	475
A Story from the Sand-Hills	481
The Elfin Hill	504
Holger Danske	509