[First edition].

xxiv, 1101 pages; 24 cm

Presents 156 tales accompanied by the author's notes on the background of his stories.

Tinderbox -- Little Claus and Big Claus -- Princess and the pea -- Little Ida's flowers -- Inchelina -- Naughty boy -- Traveling companion -- Little mermaid -- Emperor's new clothes -- Magic galoshes -- Daisy -- Steadfast tin soldier -- Wild swans -- Garden of Eden - Flying trunk -- Storks -- Bronze pig -- Pact of friendship -- Rose from Homer's grave -- Sandman -- Rose elf -- Swineherd -- Buckwheat -- Angel -- Nightingale -- Sweethearts -- Ugly duckling -- Pine tree -- Snow Queen -- Mother Elderberry -- Darning needle -- Bell -- Grandmother -- Hill of the elves -- Red shoes -- Jumping competition -- Shepherdess and the chimney sweep -- Holger the Dane -- Little match girl -- From the ramparts of the citadel -- From a window in Vartov -- Old street lamp -- Neighbors -- Little Tuck -- Shadow -- Old house -- Drop of water -- Happy family -- Story of a mother -- Collar -- Flax -- Bird phoenix -- Story -- Silent album -- Old gravestone -- There is a difference -- World's most beautiful rose -- Year's story -- On the last day -- It is perfectly true! -- Swans' nest -- Happy disposition -- Grief -- Everything in its right place -- Pixy and the grocer -- Millennium -- Under the willow tree -- Five peas from the same pod -- Leaf from Heaven -- She was no good -- Last pearl -- Two maidens -- Uttermost parts of the sea -- Piggy bank -- Ib and little Christina -- Clod Hans -- Thorny path -- Servant -- Bottle -- Philosopher's Stone -- How to cook soup upon a sausage pin -- Pepperman's nightcap -- "Something" -- Old oak tree's last dream -- Talisman -- Bog King's Daughter -- Winners -- Bell deep -- Evil king -- What the wind told about Valdemar Daae and his daughters -- Girl who stepped on bread -- Watchman of the tower -- Anne Lisbeth -- Children's prattle -- String of pearls -- Pen and the inkwell - Dead child -- Cock and the weathercock -- "Lovely" -- Story from the dunes -- Puppeteer -- Two brothers -- Old church bell -- Twelve passengers -- Dung beetles -- What father does is always right -- Snowman -- In the duckyard -- Muse of the Twentieth Century -- Ice Maiden -- Butterfly -- Psyche -- Snail and the rosebush -- "Will-o'-the-wisps-are in town," said the bog witch -- Windmill -- Silver shilling -- Bishop of Borglum cloister and his kinsmen -- In the children's room -- Golden treasure -- How the storm changed the signs -- Teapot -- Songbird of the people -- Little green ones -- Pixy and the gardener's wife -- Peiter, Peter, and Peer -- Hidden but not forgotten -- Janitor's son -- Moving day -- Snowdrop -- Auntie -- Toad -- Godfather's picture book -- Rags -- Two islands -- Who was the happiest -- Wood nymph -- Family of Hen-Grethe -- Adventures of a thistle -- Question of imagination -- Luck can be found in a stick -- Comet -- Days of the week -- Sunshine's story -- Great-Grandfather -- Candles -- Most incredible -- What the whole family said -- "Dance, Dance, Dolly Mine!" -- "It is you the fable is about!" -- Great sea serpent -- Gardener and his master -- Professor and the flea -- Story old Johanna told -- Front door key -- Cripple -- Auntie Toothache.

Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian), 1805-1875 -- Translations into English.

Fairy tales -- Denmark.

Children's stories, Danish -- Translations into English.

Haugaard, Erik Christian.

Tales. English

0385019017

0385058675 library binding