num_pages: 36
description: The tale is about a fir tree so anxious to grow up so anxious for greater things that he cannot appreciate living in the moment. The tale was first published 21 December 1844 with The Snow Queen in Copenhagen Denmark by C.A. Reitzel. One scholar indicates that The Fir-Tree was the first of Andersen's fairy tales to express a deep pessimism.
language: English
title: The Fir Tree
publisher: Harper & Row