Hans Christian Andersen
The Swineherd
There was once a poor Prince, who had a kingdom. His kingdom was very small ...
The Shoes of Fortune
Every author has some peculiarity in his descriptions or in his style of writing ...
The Fir Tree
Out in the woods stood a nice little Fir Tree. The place he had was a very good one: the sun shone on him ...
The Leap-frog
A Flea, a Grasshopper, and a Leap-frog once wanted to see which could jump highest ...
The Elderbush
Once upon a time there was a little boy who had taken cold. He had gone out and got his feet wet ...
The Bell
People said "The Evening Bell is sounding, the sun is setting." For a strange wondrous tone was heard ...
The Old House
In the street, up there, was an old, a very old house - it was almost three hundred years old ...
The Happy Family
Really, the largest green leaf in this country is a dock-leaf; if one holds it before one, it is like a whole apron ...
The Story of a Mother
A mother sat there with her little child. She was so downcast, so afraid that it should die ...
The False Collar
There was once a fine gentleman, all of whose moveables were a boot-jack and a hair-comb: but he had the finest false collars ...
The Shadow
It is in the hot lands that the sun burns, sure enough! there the people become quite a mahogany brown ...
The Little Match Girl
Most terribly cold it was; it snowed, and was nearly quite dark, and evening-- the last evening of the year ...
The Dream of Little Tuk
Ah! yes, that was little Tuk: in reality his name was not Tuk, but that was what he called himself ...
The Naughty Boy
Along time ago, there lived an old poet, a thoroughly kind old poet. As he was sitting one evening in his room ...
The Red Shoes
There was once a little girl who was very pretty and delicate, but in summer she was forced to run about with bare feet ...
The Snow Queen
Now we are about to begin, and you must attend; and when we get to the end of the story, you will know more than you do now ...
The Nightingale
In China, as you know, the Emperor is a Chinaman, and all the people around him are Chinamen too ...
The Real Princess
There was once a prince, and he wanted a princess, but then she must be a real Princess ...
The Emperor's New Clothes
Many years ago there was an Emperor, who was so excessively fond of new clothes that he spent all his money...
The Snail and the Rose-Tree
A hedge of hazel-nut bushes encircled the garden; without was field and...
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Fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen, including his best-known stories The Snow Queen, The Little Mermaid, The Emperor`s New Clothes and The Ugly Duckling.
Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales have been translated into well over a hundred languages and have brought joy to children across the world.
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Hans Christian Andersen
The Garden of Paradise
There was once a king's son; nobody had so many or such beautiful books as he had ...
The Mermaid
Far out at sea the water is as blue as the bluest cornflower, and as clear as the clearest crystal ...
The Wind's Tale
When the wind sweeps across a field of grass it makes little ripples in it like a lake ...
The Ice-Maiden
Let us visit Switzerland and look around us in the glorious country of mountains, where the forest rises out of steep rocky walls; let us ascend to the dazzling snow-fields, and thence descend to the green plains, where the rivulets and brooks hasten away, foaming up, as if they feared not to vanish, as they reached the sea.
The Butterfly
The butterfly wished to procure a bride for himself—of course, one of the flowers—a pretty little one ...
The Psyche
A large star beams in the dawn of morning in the red sky - the clearest star of the morning ...
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