This collection of twenty-six tales features reproductions of the original illustrations by Vilhelm Pedersen and Lorenz Frolich, especially photographed from the drawings in the Hans Andersen Museum at Odense.

 

 

This book features in the following series: World's Classics, Worlds Classics .

There are 372 pages in this book. This book was published in 1985 by Oxford University Press .

Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) was a Danish author and poet, most famous for his writing down of many timeless, classic fairy tales. He is Denmark's most famous author and his birthday is celebrated every year with a part called "Odin Story Day". L. W. Kingsland was born and educated in London. In addition to translating from the Danish, he has translated books from Norwegian and Swedish. Edith Nesbit was an English author and poet who published over 60 books of fiction for children under her pen name E. Nesbit.