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Fairy Tales (Paperback)
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Fairy Tales (Paperback)
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Containing an enchanting mix of familiar favourites and hidden
gems, the Penguin Classics edition of Hans Christian Andersen's
Fairy Tales is translated by Tiina Nunnally and edited with an
introduction by Jackie Wullschlager. The first writer to create
timeless, universal fairy tales from his own imagination, Hans
Christian Andersen conjured up a world of icy queens, match girls
and tin soldiers, rewarded virtue and unfulfilled desire. Rich with
popular tales such as 'The Emperor's New Clothes' and 'The Ugly
Duckling', this revelatory new collection contains many later,
darker and rarely collected stories, such as 'Auntie Toothache' and
'The Shadow', in which a man's shadow slyly takes over his life.
This sparkling new translation captures the eccentric charm of
Andersen's original, colloquial Danish style as never before. The
introduction vividly describes his changing style and there are
notes on every tale. 'Truly scrumptious, a proper treasury ... Read
on with eyes as big as teacups' Guardian 'This translation gives
me, for the first time, a real sense of the range and variety of
Andersen's style' A.S. Byatt 'There have been some capable versions
in English, but Tiina Nunnally's seems to me the best. Jackie
Wullschlager's introduction will be of enormous value' Harold Bloom
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