Selected Fairy Tales Collins Classics — Hans Christian Andersen

It doesn t matter if you re born in a duck yard so long as you are hatched from a swan s egg from The Ugly Duckling This collection brings together some of Hans Christian Andersen s most popular fairy tales including The Little Mermaid The Ugly Duckling and Thumbelina in a celebration of one of the world s most widely recognised children s authors With universal themes and dark humour at their heart these moralistic tales have delighted readers since first publication in the nineteenth century and continued to be well loved today The fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen a storyteller of great importance to Western literature have inspired many films ballets and plays and entertained generations of children and adults alike

It doesn t matter if you re born in a duck yard so long as you are hatched from a swan s egg from The Ugly Duckling This collection brings together some of Hans Christian Andersen s most popular fairy tales including The Little Mermaid The Ugly Duckling and Thumbelina in a celebration of one of the world s most widely recognised children s authors With universal themes and dark humour at their heart these moralistic tales have delighted readers since first publication in the nineteenth century and continued to be well loved today The fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen a storyteller of great importance to Western literature have inspired many films ballets and plays and entertained generations of children and adults alike