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Hans christian andersen stories
Hans christian andersen stories





hans christian andersen stories

The readers are effectively introduced to different cultural tales and themes of each story. The way the authors tells the story is having different themes and having different styles of the stories. The characters are very descriptive and gave background stories of each character. If I were to rate just the first ⅓ of the book, I would give that part 5 out of 5 stars mostly because it had a variety of tales and some characters interconnect with other tales. My three main reasons for this rating is because it was about fantasy,emotional, and some were about the origins of christmas, nutcracker, the snow queen and other tales. Some of the stories were about horror and some of them were emotional on how christmas was for different characters, and should receive 5 out of 5 stars. The book contained multiple tales and tales that you can share with other people and share around the campfire. Still, those who stumble across it will undoubtedly find much that appeals to them, in its pages.

hans christian andersen stories

That said, I'm not sure I'd recommend this title, either to Andersen or Dulac fans, as the complete edition is available from Calla. I think my favorites, of the illustrations, were this one (of Gerda and the reindeer), the one of Waldemar Daa's youngest daughter, Anna Dorothea, gathering herbs, and the depiction of the Snow Queen hovering above the city. The cover shows Gerda and the reindeer kissing, an image that attentive readers will recognize from The Annotated Hans Christian Andersen (upper right-hand corner). Still, I imagine that most readers' primary interest in this volume will be the Dulac paintings, which are beautiful, despite the poor reproductions. No information as to translator is given, nor can I discover any online, which is rather frustrating. Here the reader will encounter faithful, albeit rather stiff and old-fashioned, translations of The Snow Queen (in all seven parts!), The Emperor's New Clothes, The Wind's Tale About Waldemar Daa and His Daughters (the first time I have seen this anthologized!), The Nightingale, and The Little Mermaid. Readers looking for an edition more faithful to the original, should check out the recent facsimile printed by Calla Editions. This collection, published in 1976 by Doubleday, contains five of the original seven tales - The Garden of Paradise and The Real Princess (AKA The Princess and the Pea) have been omitted - and fifteen of the original twenty-eight plates.

hans christian andersen stories

In 1911, the British publisher Hodder & Stoughton published an edition of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy-tales, accompanied by twenty-eight gorgeous full-color illustrations by Edmund Dulac, a "Golden-Age" illustrator whose work has been compared to such artists as Arthur Rackham.







Hans christian andersen stories