Fairy Tales (Classics)

Children's Books

Haugaard, Erik Christian

Andersen, Hans-Christian

Fairy Tales, Folk Tales & Myths

The Franklin Library

Brings together popular and lesser-known works by the beloved writer of fairy tales and includes biographical notes

The Complete Fairy Tales and Stories

Virginia Haviland

Classics

DOUBLEDAY

This definitive collection of work from Hans Christian Andersen—one of the immortals of world literature—not only includes his own notes to his stories but is the only version available in trade paperback that presents Andersen's fairy tales exactly as he collected them in the original Danish edition of 1874. Recognizing the literary merit of Andersen's own simple colloquial language, which Victorian translators and their imitators very often altered to sentimentalize or vulgarize, translator Erik Haugaard has remained faithful to the original text. The fairy tales Hans Christian Andersen wrote, such as "The Snow Queen," "The Ugly Duckling," "The Red Shoes," and "The Nightingale," are remarkable for their sense of fantasy, power of description, and acute sensitivity, and they are like no others written before or since. Unlike the Brothers Grimm, who collected and retold folklore, Andersen adopted the most ancient literary forms of the fairy tale and the folktale and distilled them into a genre that was uniquely his own.

Hans Christian Andersen: The Complete Fairy Tales and Stories (Anchor Folktale Library)

Literature & Fiction

Haviland, Virginia

Genre Fiction

Anchor

Involved in the tragedy of the fall of ancient Jerusalem, a young boy, one of the seven survivors of Masada, tells the story of cruelty, disillusionment, and courage.

The Rider and His Horse

Houghton, mifflin, harcourt

In seventeenth-century Denmark a young orphan seeks his fortune during the wars with Sweden.

The untold tale

Houghton/Mifflin

A young boy becomes involved in the early events of the English Civil War that unseated Charles I bringing Cromwell and the Puritans to power.

A Messenger for Parliament

Teen & Young Adult

A 13-year-old spy's wit and horsemanship make him invaluable to the Cromwell forces as they fight against King Charles.

Cromwell's Boy

Historical Fiction

In 1937, after meeting a mysterious stranger on a ferry from Denmark to Germany, an unassuming Danish schoolboy agrees to complete the stranger's mission, a dangerous assignment for the resistance forces fighting against Hitler

Chase Me, Catch Nobody

Faced with increasingly harsh winters and deteriorating morale in fifteenth-century Greenland, a young man struggles to rally the last few surviving Norse colonists, who feel their only hope is rescue by ships from Norway.

Leif the Unlucky

Patrick defies his unloving grandfather, a smuggler of the Irish island of Valentia, by warning John Paul Jones of the American fleet about an English ambush.

A Boy's Will

Houghton, Mifflin Company

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