The complete online text of Pictures of Sweden by Hans Christian Andersen.

The Danish author Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) enjoyed fame in his own lifetime as a novelist, dramatist, and poet, but his fairy tales are his great contribution to world literature. Hans Christian Andersen was born on April 2, 1805, in Odense, D...

During his lifetime, Hans Christian Andersen was well known in both Europe and the United States for his novels, fairy tales, and stories, as well as for his literary travel books and autobiography. Some of his poems and plays were also translated into G...

Hans Christian Andersen, recognized as one of the masters of the fairy-tale genre, based much of his work on his own life. "Recollections of childhood and youth," wrote Reginald Spink in Hans Christian Andersen and His World, "sometimes idealized and tra...

Capital: Stockholm Head of State: King Carl XVI Gustaf (since September 1973) Inherited title and mostly ceremonial position Head of Government: Prime Minister Goran Persson (since March 1996) Following legislative elections, the prime minister is elected by the Parliament Parliament:...

In Sweden, scandalous affairs are usually of the financial sort By KARL RITTER Associated Press Sunday, April 13, 2003 Stockholm, Sweden -- If the cardinal sin in American politics is cheating on your spouse, in Sweden it's cheating on your taxes....