The complete online text of Stories from Hans Andersen 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...

The Stories of Hans Christian Andersen. Selected and translated by Diana Crone Frank and Jeffrey Frank. Illustrated by Vilhelm Pedersen and Lorenz FrÃ'lich. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005. 293 pp., bibliography. In the past decade, particularly in small European nations like Denmark,...

Hans Christian Andersen: The Misunderstood Storyteller, by jack Zipes. New York: Routledge, 2005.171 pages, index, $19.95 paper. I must start with a confession: I asked to do this review because of Danny Kaye's portrayal of Hans Christian Andersen. As a child I loved...