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Fairy Tales Told for Children. First Collection. (Danish: Eventyr, fortalte for Børn.Første Samling.) is a collection of nine fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen.The tales were published in a series of three installments by C. A. Reitzel between May 1835 and April 1837, and represent Andersen's first venture into the fairy tale genre.
"The Wild Swans" (Danish: De vilde svaner) is a literary fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen about a princess who rescues her 11 brothers from a spell cast by an evil queen. The tale was first published on 2 October 1838 in Andersen's Fairy Tales Told for Children. New Collection.
Thumbelina (/ ˌ θ ʌ m b ə ˈ l iː n ə /; Danish: Tommelise) is a literary fairy tale written by the famous Danish author, Hans Christian Andersen.It was first published by C. A. Reitzel on 16 December 1835 in Copenhagen, Denmark, with "The Naughty Boy" and "The Travelling Companion" in the second installment of Fairy Tales Told for Children.
Her flower fairy paintings, in particular, were driven by the Victorian popularity of fairies and fairy stories. Cicely Mary Barker published her first Flower Fairies book in 1923. [3] She received £25 for Flower Fairies of the Spring, a collection of twenty-four paintings and illustrations.
Fairy tales are stories that range from those in folklore to more modern stories defined as literary fairy tales. Despite subtle differences in the categorizing of fairy tales, folklore, fables, myths, and legends, a modern definition of the literary fairy tale, as provided by Jens Tismar's monograph in German, [1] is a story that differs "from an oral folk tale" in that it is written by "a ...
"The Swineherd" (Danish: Svinedrengen) is a literary fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen about a prince who disguises himself as a swineherd to win an arrogant princess. The tale was first published December 20, 1841 by C. A. Reitzel in Copenhagen, Denmark in Fairy Tales Told for Children. New Collection.
The girl sets off but the fairy appears as a fine princess, and requests that the girl draw her a drink from the well. The elder daughter speaks rudely to the fairy and insults her. The fairy decrees that, as punishment for her despicable attitude, either a toad or a snake would fall from the rude girl's mouth whenever she speaks.
Tales from Shakespeare; Tales from Silver Lands; Tales from Watership Down; Tales of Magic and Mystery; Tales of St. Austin's; The Tales of Uncle Remus: The Adventures of Brer Rabbit; The Tangle-Coated Horse and Other Tales; Tanglewood Tales; Tarzan and the Tarzan Twins; The Books of Earthsea; The Three Witch Maidens; Tim the Tiny Horse; Tim ...