Best Fairy Tales (Macmillan Collector's Library)

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ISBN: 9781509826650
Author : Andersen, Hans Christian
Published: 2016
Number of pages: 464
Language: English
Format: Hardback

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Hans Christian Andersen was the profoundly imaginative writer and storyteller who revolutionised literature for children. He gave us the now standard versions of some traditional fairy tales – with an anarchic twist – but many of his most famous tales sprang directly from his imagination. The thirty stories here range from exuberant early works such as The Tinderbox and The Emperor’s New Clothes through poignant masterpieces such as The Little Mermaid, The Little Match Girl and The Ugly Duckling, to more subversive later tales such as The Ice Maiden and The Dryad. Uniquely inventive and vivacious in style and with deep insight into children’s points of view, Andersen established a new genre in literature. This is the classic translation by Jean Hersholt and is illustrated by various artists, with an afterword by Ned Halley. Designed to appeal to the booklover, Macmillan Collector’s Library is a series of beautifully bound hardback gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector’s Library are books to love and treasure.

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