Listeners will rediscover Hans Christian Andersen's best-known fairy tales, and find new favorites. Recognizing the literary merit of Andersen's own simple colloquial language, Erik Haugaard has remained faithful to the original text in the translation from Danish to English. This illustrated collection, beautifully translated by Pat Shaw Iversen, includes 47 of Hans Christian Andersens immortal tales. They are like no others written before or since. His fairy tales are remarkable for their sense of fantasy, power of description, and vivid imagination. He is also the author of plays, novels, poems, travel books, and several autobiographies. As he walked on, he met a very frightful-looking old witch in the road. He had his knapsack on his back, and a sword at his side he had been to the wars, and was now returning home. A soldier came marching along the high road: Left, right - left, right. Unlike the Brothers Grimm, who collected and retold folklore and fairy tales, Hans Christian Andersen adopted the most ancient literary forms and distilled them into a genre that was uniquely his own. Hans Christian Andersen, (born April 2, 1805, Odense, near Copenhagen, Denmarkdied August 4, 1875, Copenhagen), Danish master of the literary fairy tale whose stories achieved wide renown. Fairytales and stories of Hans Christian Andersen. Murray Abraham and an ensemble cast of narrators, and featuring original music by Michael Bacon, this collection contains Hans Christian Andersen’s most beloved fairy tales, as well as a selection of lesser-known favorites. Brought to life by Academy Award®-winning actor F.
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