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Title: Hans Christian Andersen the Complete Fairy Tales and Stories by Virginia Haviland, Hans Christian Andersen, Erik Christian Haugaard ISBN: 0-385-18951-6 Publisher: Anchor Books/Doubleday Pub. Date: 09 September, 1983 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.8 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent Collection of Favorites!
Comment: Every child should read Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales a first introduction to fantasy and modern tales of today. The book is great for adults also. Many stories I recall from my own childhood as I devoured the fairy tales that are enduring and lasting as classics forever.
Evelyn Horan - author
Jeannie, A Texas Frontier Girl, Books One - Three
Rating: 4
Summary: The Ugly Duckling. The Little Mermaid. It's all here!
Comment: The Ugly Duckling. The Little Mermaid. The Tinderbox. The Emperor's New Clothes. The Princess and the Pea. It's all here!
C. S. Lewis, in his preface to "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe," observed that as children we grow out of hearing fairy tales, but as an adult we can come back to them with fresh eyes and be enchanted in a different way. HCA stories have that amphibian quality of living above and below the supposed age limits.
I find it surprising that HCA writing in a minor language would be so popular, but he is a genius at writing fairy tales. The Grimm Boys just collected and edited the German fairy tales, but HCA was generating new and original fairy tales. I hope we don't sluff off this unique talent he had solely on the ground that he was writing to children. After all, how many naked Emperors have we seen? The comic Dilbert gets it's life blood from the fact that so many emperors can be smooth-talked by so many charlatans, and be sustained in their delusion by smarmy sycophants, and only brought to light by a child.
If children can understand this, why can't we adults?
On the printing-side of the book, I would like to see this in a hardbound, with durable paper, and not the thin and fragile newsprint. I am almost afraid to read this book since the opaper is so delicate!
Rating: 5
Summary: The best there is
Comment: It is a pity that most people only know Hans Christian Andersen for a few of his "easiest" fairy tales. What springs to mind for almost everyone is stories like "The Emperor's New Clothes", "The Ugly Duckling" and perhaps "The Snowqueen". But Hans Christian Andersen has written a vast array of profoundly touching tales. In Odense, Denmark the Danish actor Troels Møller said (two years ago in a lecture on "H.C.A. & God"),
"We are all going to die. H.C.Andersen knew this, he worked with it and he used it to show us all the beauty of life - the beauty of all life."
His stories are not only for children they are for everyone. The likes of H.C.Andersen can be found nowhere. If you want to discover the full grandeur of his genius you MUST read more than just his popular works. I would even urge you to go to Odense to learn Danish - Much is lost in translation. But although the English translation doesn't reach the heights of the original Danish text I still give it one of my 5 star sets. And don't think that it's a case of petty nationalism - you will find no other Danish writer that I'll grant 5 great ones. It is entertainment, philosphy and religion.
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Title: The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm by Jacob Grimm, Jack Zipes, Wilhelm Grimm, Jack David Zipes, Johnny Gruelle ISBN: 0553382160 Publisher: Bantam Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Complete Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault by Charles Perrault, Neil Philip, Sally Holmes ISBN: 0395570026 Publisher: Clarion Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 1993 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales by Brothers Grimm, Josef Scharl ISBN: 0394709306 Publisher: Pantheon Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1974 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: Aesop's Fables by Laura Gibbs ISBN: 0192840509 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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Title: Grimm's Tales for Young and Old by Ralph Manheim ISBN: 0385189508 Publisher: Anchor Books/Doubleday Pub. Date: 09 September, 1983 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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