Hans Christian - Complete Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen

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Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen

Hans Christian Andersen

Chapter 1 A Story

Chapter 2 By the Almshouse Window

Chapter 3 The Angel

Chapter 4 Anne Lisbeth

Chapter 5 The Conceited Apple-Branch

Chapter 6 Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind

Chapter 7 The Beetle Who Went on His Travels

Chapter 8 The Bell

Chapter 9 The Bell-Deep

Chapter 10 The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors

Chapter 11 The Bottle Neck

Chapter 12 The Buckwheat

Chapter 13 The Butterfly

Chapter 14 A Cheerful Temper

Chapter 15 The Child in the Grave

Chapter 16 The Farm-Yard Cock and the Weather-Cock

Chapter 17 The Daisy

Chapter 18 The Darning-Needle

Chapter 19 Delaying Is Not Forgetting

Chapter 20 The Drop of Water

Chapter 21 The Dryad

Chapter 22 Jack the Dullard: An Old Story Told Anew

Chapter 23 The Dumb Book

Chapter 24 The Elf of the Rose

Chapter 25 The Elfin Hill

Chapter 26 The Emperor's New Suit

Chapter 27 The Fir Tree

Chapter 28 The Flax

Chapter 29 The Flying Trunk

Chapter 30 The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship

Chapter 31 The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf

Chapter 32 The Goblin and the Huckster

Chapter 33 The Golden Treasure

Chapter 34 The Goloshes of Fortune

A Beginning

What Happened to the Counsellor

The Watchman's Adventures

The Eventual Moment—A Most Unusual Journey

The Clerk's Transformation

The Best Thing the Goloshes Did

Chapter 35 She Was Good for Nothing

Chapter 36 Grandmother

Chapter 37 A Great Grief

Chapter 38 The Happy Family

Chapter 39 A Leaf from Heaven

Chapter 40 Holger Danske

Chapter 41 Ib and Little Christina

Chapter 42 The Ice Maiden

Little Rudy

The Journey to the New Home

The Uncle

Babette

On the Way Home

The Visit to the Mill

The Eagle's Nest

What Fresh News the Parlor-Cat Had to Tell

The Ice Maiden

The Godmother

The Cousin

Evil Powers

At the Mill

Night Visions

The Conclusion

Chapter 43 The Jewish Maiden

Chapter 44 The Jumper

Chapter 45 The Last Dream of the Old Oak

Chapter 46 The Last Pearl

Chapter 47 Little Claus and Big Claus

Chapter 48 The Little Elder-Tree Mother

Chapter 49 Little Ida's Flowers

Chapter 50 The Little Match-Seller

Chapter 51 The Little Mermaid

Chapter 52 Little Tiny or Thumbelina

Chapter 53 Little Tuk

Chapter 54 The Loveliest Rose in the World

Chapter 55 The Mail-Coach Passengers

Chapter 56 The Marsh King's Daughter

Chapter 57 The Metal Pig

Chapter 58 The Money-Box

Chapter 59 What the Moon Saw

Introduction

First Evening

Second Evening

Third Evening

Fourth Evening

Fifth Evening

Sixth Evening

Seventh Evening

Eighth Evening

Ninth Evening

Tenth Evening

Eleventh Evening

Twelfth Evening

Thirteenth Evening

Fourteenth Evening

Fifteenth Evening

Sixteenth Evening

Seventeenth Evening

Eighteenth Evening

Nineteenth Evening

Twentieth Evening

Twenty-First Evening

Twenty-Second Evening

Twenty-Third Evening

Twenty-Fourth Evening

Twenty-Fifth Evening

Twenty-Sixth Evening

Twenty-Seventh Evening

Twenty-Eighth Evening

Twenty-Ninth Evening

Thirtieth Evening

Thirty-First Evening

Thirty-Second Evening

Chapter 60 The Neighbouring Families

Chapter 61 The Nightingale

Chapter 62 There Is No Doubt About It

Chapter 63 In the Nursery

Chapter 64 The Old Bachelor's Nightcap

Chapter 65 The Old Church Bell

Chapter 66 The Old Grave-Stone

Chapter 67 The Old House

Chapter 68 What the Old Man Does Is Always Right

Chapter 69 The Old Street Lamp

Chapter 70 Ole-Luk-Oie, the Dream-God

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

Sunday

Chapter 71 Our Aunt

Chapter 72 The Philosopher's Stone

Chapter 73 The Garden of Paradise

Chapter 74 The Pea Blossom

Chapter 75 The Pen and the Inkstand

Chapter 76 The Phoenix Bird

Chapter 77 The Bird of Popular Song

Chapter 78 The Portuguese Duck

Chapter 79 The Porter's Son

Chapter 80 Poultry Meg's Family

Chapter 81 Children's Prattle

Chapter 82 The Princess and the Pea

Chapter 83 The Psyche

Chapter 84 The Puppet-Show Man

Chapter 85 The Races

Chapter 86 The Red Shoes

Chapter 87 Everything in the Right Place

Chapter 88 A Rose from Homer's Grave

Chapter 89 The Snail and the Rose-Tree

Chapter 90 The Story of a Mother

Chapter 91 The Saucy Boy

Chapter 92 The Shadow

Chapter 93 The Shepherdess and the Sheep

Chapter 94 The Silver Shilling

Chapter 95 The Shirt-Collar

Chapter 96 The Snow Man

Chapter 97 The Snow Queen

STORY THE FIRST: Which describes a looking-glass and the broken fragments

SECOND STORY: A Little Boy and a Little Girl

THIRD STORY: The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure

FOURTH STORY: The Prince and Princess

FIFTH STORY: Little Robber-Girl

SIXTH STORY: The Lapland Woman and the Finland Woman

SEVENTH STORY: Of the Palace of the Snow Queen and What Happened There At Last

Chapter 98 The Snowdrop

Chapter 99 Something

Chapter 100 Soup from a Sausage Skewer

What the First Little Mouse Saw and Heard on Her Travels

What the Second Mouse Had to Tell

What the Fourth Mouse, Who Spoke Before the Third, Had to Tell

How It Was Prepared

Chapter 101 The Storks

Chapter 102 The Storm Shakes the Shield

Chapter 103 A Story from the Sand-Hills

Chapter 104 The Sunbeam and the Captive

Chapter 105 The Swan's Nest

Chapter 106 The Swineherd

Chapter 107 The Toad

Chapter 108 The Story of the Wind

Chapter 109 The Story of the Year

Chapter 110 The Thistle's Experiences

Chapter 111 The Thorny Road of Honor

Chapter 112 In a Thousand Years

Chapter 113 The Brave Tin Soldier

Chapter 114 The Tinder-Box

Chapter 115 The Top and Ball

Chapter 116 Ole the Tower-Keeper

First Visit

Second Visit

Third Visit

Chapter 117 The Travelling Companion

Chapter 118 Two Brothers

Chapter 119 Two Maidens

Chapter 120 The Ugly Duckling

Chapter 121 Under the Willow-Tree

Chapter 122 In the Uttermost Parts of the Sea

Chapter 123 What One Can Invent

Chapter 124 The Wicked Prince

Chapter 125 The Wild Swans

Chapter 126 The Will-o'-the-Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman

Chapter 127 The Windmill

Published:1872

IN the garden all the apple-trees were in blossom. They had hastened to bring forth flowers before they got green leaves, and in the yard all the ducklings walked up and down, and the cat too: it basked in the sun and licked the sunshine from its own paws. And when one looked at the fields, how beautifully the corn stood and how green it shone, without comparison! and there was a twittering and a fluttering of all the little birds, as if the day were a great festival; and so it was, for it was Sunday. All the bells were ringing, and all the people went to church, looking cheerful, and dressed in their best clothes. There was a look of cheerfulness on everything. The day was so warm and beautiful that one might well have said: "God's kindness to us men is beyond all limits." But inside the church the pastor stood in the pulpit, and spoke very loudly and angrily. He said that all men were wicked, and God would punish them for their sins, and that the wicked, when they died, would be cast into hell, to burn for ever and ever. He spoke very excitedly, saying that their evil propensities would not be destroyed, nor would the fire be extinguished, and they should never find rest. That was terrible to hear, and he said it in such a tone of conviction; he described hell to them as a miserable hole where all the refuse of the world gathers. There was no air beside the hot burning sulphur flame, and there was no ground under their feet; they, the wicked ones, sank deeper and deeper, while eternal silence surrounded them! It was dreadful to hear all that, for the preacher spoke from his heart, and all the people in the church were terrified. Meanwhile, the birds sang merrily outside, and the sun was shining so beautifully warm, it seemed as though every little flower said: "God, Thy kindness towards us all is without limits." Indeed, outside it was not at all like the pastor's sermon.