The Complete Fairy Tales - H.C. Andersen

The Complete Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales contains 159 stories that have been loved over the years by readers of all ages from all over the world. It has stories such as The Snow Queen, The Emperor’s New Clothes, The Little Mermaid and The Ugly Duckling. All the stories in this book are beautifully illustrated without any alteration from the original illustrations and stories. The stories in the book all convey a moral and have been written to be thought-provoking. For this reason, even though they were initially considered to be children’s tales, they have proved to be interesting to people of any age.

In the story The Emperor’s New Clothes, the writer describes an emperor who was very fond of new clothes, so much so that he spent all his money on purchasing new clothes. He had no concern about his soldiers or for anything else in his kingdom, including his subjects. But someone comes along and teaches him a hilarious lesson about his materialistic ways. Another timeless story in The Complete Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales is The Snow Queen, where the writer describes about a wicked sprite that was the most mischievous of all. One day he made a mirror which had the power to show everything that was beautiful and good as mean and poor and, on the other hand, everything that was ugly and good for nothing was seen as magnificent and beautiful. The Complete Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales was written by Hans Christian Andersen and was published in an Avenel 1981 edition in hardcover format by Gramercy in 1993.