The tales that made a Danish poet the most translated writer of his century: the emperor's new clothes, the snow queen, the little match girl, the red shoes, the shadow, the fir tree. Andersen wrote them to be spoken aloud, and was hurt all his life that critics preferred his novels. There is no fairy-tale justice in them; the match girl freezes, the fir tree is burned, and the red shoes dance on without their owner.
Andersen's Fairy Tales : Eighteen Tales, including The Snow Queen and The Fir Tree
Geschrieben von Hans Christian Andersen
