Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales
By Hans Christian Andersen (1872)
The poetic Danish masterpieces: The Ugly Duckling, The Emperor's New Clothes, The Steadfast Tin Soldier, Thumbelina, and The Nightingale.
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Chapter 1: The Ugly Duckling
Pecked and chased through the reeds, wintering in ice, only to behold his own reflection as a majestic swan.
The Ugly Duckling
Pecked and chased through the reeds, wintering in ice, only to behold his own reflection as a majestic swan.
[Complete Public Domain Work — Pre-1928 Edition.]
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Chapter 1: The Ugly Duckling
Pecked and chased through the reeds, wintering in ice, only to behold his own reflection as a majestic swan.
Chapter 2: The Emperor's New Clothes
The two swindlers, the invisible looms, and the small child who cries: 'But he has nothing on!'
Chapter 3: The Steadfast Tin Soldier
The one-legged soldier standing brave on his single foot, steadfast in love through gutter and fish belly.
Chapter 4: Thumbelina
Born from a barleycorn blossom; sleeping in a walnut shell; flying on the swallow's back to the flower kingdom.
Chapter 5: The Nightingale
The little gray forest bird whose song brings tears to the Chinese Emperor and turns away Death himself.
Chapter 6: The Real Princess (The Princess and the Pea)
Feeling a single dried pea through twenty mattresses and twenty featherbeds.
Chapter 7: The Fir Tree
The little evergreen dreaming of glory, decorated with candles on Christmas Eve, learning contentment too late.
Chapter 8: The Snow Queen: Kay and Gerda
The splinters of the goblin mirror in the boy's eye and heart; Gerda's journey to the frozen north to melt the ice.
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