num_pages: 464
description: Hans Christian Andersen was the profoundly imaginative writer and storyteller who revolutionized literature for children. He gave us the now standard versions of some traditional fairy tales  with an anarchic twist  but many of his most famous tales sprang directly from his imagination. The thirty stories here range from exuberant early works such as The Tinderbox and The Emperors New Clothes through poignant masterpieces such as The Little Mermaid The Little Match Girl and The Ugly Duckling to more subversive later tales such as The Ice Maiden and The Dryad. Uniquely inventive and vivacious in style and with deep insight into the childs point of view Andersen had established a new genre in literature.This is the classic translation by Jean Hersholt.Illustrated by various artists with an afterword by Ned Halley.Designed to appeal to the booklover the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth printed on high quality paper and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.
language: English
title: Best Fairy Tales
publisher: Publishers Group Canada