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Best Fairy Tales
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Hans Christian Andersen was the profoundly imaginative writer and storyteller who revolutionized literature for children. He gave us the now standard versions of some traditional fairy tales – with an anarchic twist – but many of his most famous tales sprang directly from his imagination. The thirty stories here range from exuberant early works such as `The Tinderbox` and `The Emperor`s New Clothes` through poignant masterpieces such as `The Little Mermaid`, `The Little Match Girl` and `The Ugly Duckling`, to more subversive later tales such as `The Ice Maiden` and `The Dryad`. Uniquely inventive and vivacious in style and with deep insight into children`s points of view, Andersen established a new genre in literature.This beautiful Macmillan Collector`s Library edition of Hans Christian Andersen`s Best Fairy Tales is the classic translation by Jean Hersholt and is illustrated by various artists, with an afterword by Ned Halley.Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector`s Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector`s Library are books to love and treasure.