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Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales

  • 250 pages · about 4 hours
  • First published 1846
  • 298 editions
  • Free to read

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1 About this book

Sixteen tales including "Little Claus and Big Claus," "Father's Always Right," and "The Goblin and the Grocer."

Good for readers who want: short stories, fairy tales, and a book they can read free online.

  • Miniature books
  • Basic English
  • Folklore
  • Children's stories, Danish
  • Children's stories
  • Short stories
  • Fairy tales
  • Children's fiction

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3 About Hans Christian Andersen

1805–1875

Hans Christian Andersen ( AN-dər-sən; Danish: ; 2 April 1805 – 4 August 1875) was a Danish writer. A prolific writer of plays, travelogues, novels, and poems, he is best remembered for his literary fairy tales. Andersen's fairy tales, consisting of 156 stories across nine volumes, have been translated into more than 125 languages.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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