STORIES FROM HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN - 7 Illustrated Children's stories from the Master Storyteller E-Book

Hans Christian Andersen

• Herausgeber: Abela Publishing
• Kategorie: Fantasy und Science-Fiction
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2018

Beschreibung

In this volume you will find 7 children’s stories by the master story-teller - Hans Christian Andersen. These 7 stories are accompanied by 28 exquisite colour plates by another master, Edmund Dulac. Included in this volume are The Mermaid, on which the famous statue is based and The Emperor's New Clothes which is always sure to make children giggle. Fancy, and emperor walking around with no clothes on! How rude.

Andersen believed that wherever there are children, fairy tales will be read and loved. He was right then and he is still right today.
The tales in this volume are:

• The Snow Queen
• The Nightingale
• The Real Princess
• The Garden Of Paradise
• The Mermaid
• The Emperor's New Clothes
• The Wind's Tale

The power of his tales to charm and elevate runs like a living thread through whatever he writes. In the two books, the first of which is presented here, they have met the tests and held an undiminishing popularity among the best children's books. They have set the standard, and their place in permanent literature will grow wider and more secure as time passes. Only a few children's authors will be ranked among the Immortals, and Hans Andersen is without a doubt one of them.

It adds a charm to the little stories of these two volumes to know that the genial author travelled widely for a man of his time and everywhere he went he was urged to tell the tales himself. Even though he had become world famous, he did with equal measures of charm and grace in the kitchens of the humble and in the courts of nobles and palaces of kings.

10% of the profit from the sale of this book will be donated to charities.
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KEYWORDS: Hans Andersen Fairy Tales, Folklore, Myths, Legends, Children’s Stories, Bedtime, Fables, Read, School Children, Homes, Love To Read, Story-Teller, Imagination, Snow Queen, Seven Parts, Nightingale, Real Princess, Garden Of Paradise, Mermaid, Emperor's New Clothes, Wind's Tale, Mirror, Fragments, Little Boy, Little Girl, Garden, Woman. Learn Magic, Prince, Princess, Robber Girl, Lapp Woman, Finn Woman, Palace, Sing, Delicious, Poor Fisherman, Sweet, Heavenly Song, Grandmother, Eagle, great forest, Eastwind, Fairy of the Garden, banian tree, Sphynx, merman king, oyster, minister, canopy, waldemar daa, daughters, Borreby village, Tareby village, Funen, lute, flowers, herbs, Gold, wind

Leseprobe

Stories from Hans Christian Andersen

By

H. C. Andersen

Illustrator

Edmund Dulac

Originally Published By

Hodder & Stoughton Limited, London

[1911]

Resurrected By

Abela Publishing, London

[2018]

Stories From Hans Christian Andersen

Typographical arrangement of this edition

© Abela Publishing 2018

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Abela Publishing,

London

United Kingdom

2018

ISBN-13: 978-X-XXXXXX-XX-X

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CONTENTS

The Snow Queen

The Nightingale

The Real Princess

The Garden Of Paradise

The Mermaid

The Emperor's New Clothes

The Wind's Tale

ILLUSTRATIONS

THE SNOW QUEEN

One day he was in a high state of delight because he had invented a mirror

Many a winter's night she flies through the streets

Then an old, old woman came out of the house

She has read all the newspapers in the world, and forgotten them again, so clever is she

'It is gold, it is gold!' they cried

Kissed her on the mouth, while big shining tears trickled down its face

The Snow Queen sat in the very middle of it when she sat at home

THE NIGHTINGALE

Even the poor fisherman ... lay still to listen to it

'Is it possible?' said the gentleman-in-waiting. 'I should never have thought it was like that'

Took some water into their mouths to try and make the same gurgling, ... thinking so to equal the nightingale

The music-master wrote five-and-twenty volumes about the artificial bird

Even Death himself listened to the song

THE REAL PRINCESS

'I have hardly closed my eyes the whole night! Heaven knows what was in the bed. I seemed to be lying upon some hard thing, and my whole body is black and blue this morning. It is terrible!' (Frontispiece)

THE GARDEN OF PARADISE

His grandmother had told him ... that every flower in the Garden of Paradise was a delicious cake

The Eastwind flew more swiftly still

The Fairy of the Garden now advanced to meet them

The Fairy dropped her shimmering garment, drew back the branches, and a moment after was hidden within their depths

THE MERMAID

The Merman King had been for many years a widower

He must have died if the little mermaid had not come to the rescue

At the mere sight of the bright liquid

The prince asked who she was and how she came there

Dashed overboard and fell, her body dissolving into foam

THE EMPEROR'S NEW CLOTHES

The poor old minister stared as hard as he could, but he could not see anything

Then the Emperor walked along in the procession under the gorgeous canopy, and everybody in the streets and at the windows exclaimed, 'How beautiful the Emperor's new clothes are!'

THE WIND'S TALE

She played upon the ringing lute, and sang to its tones

She was always picking flowers and herbs

He lifted it with a trembling hand and shouted with a trembling voice: 'Gold! gold!'

Waldemar Daa hid it in his bosom, took his staff in his hand, and, with his three daughters, the once wealthy gentleman walked out of Borreby Hall for the last time

THE SNOW QUEEN

A TALE IN SEVEN STORIES

FIRST STORY

WHICH DEALS WITH A MIRROR AND ITS FRAGMENTS

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 about a very wicked hobgoblin. He was one of the worst kind; in fact he was a real demon. One day he was in a high state of delight because he had invented a mirror with this peculiarity, that every good and pretty thing reflected in it shrank away to almost nothing. On the other hand, every bad and good-for-nothing thing stood out and looked its worst. The most beautiful landscapes reflected in it looked like boiled spinach, and the best people became hideous, or else they were upside down and had no bodies. Their faces were distorted beyond recognition, and if they had even one freckle it appeared to spread all over the nose and mouth. The demon thought this immensely amusing. If a good thought passed through any one's mind, it turned to a grin in the mirror, and this caused real delight to the demon.