Celebrates the stories told by Denmark's perfect wizard and re-envisions Andersen as a writer who casts his spell on both children and adults. It will captivate readers with annotations that exlore the rich social and cultural dimensions of the 19th century.

A richly entertaining and informative collection of Hans Christian Andersen's stories, annotated by one of America's leading folklore scholars. In her most ambitious annotated work to date, Maria Tatar celebrates the stories told by Denmark's "perfect wizard" and re-envisions Hans Christian Andersen as a writer who casts his spell on both children and adults. Andersen's most beloved tales, such as "The Emperor's New Clothes," "The Ugly Duckling," and "The Little Mermaid," are now joined by "The Shadow" and "Story of a Mother," mature stories that reveal his literary range and depth. Tatar captures the tales' unrivaled dramatic and visual power, showing exactly how Andersen became one of the world's ten most translated authors, along with Shakespeare, Dickens, and Marx. Lushly illustrated with more than one hundred fifty rare images, many in full color, by artists such as Arthur Rackham and Edmund Dulac, The Annotated Hans Christian Andersen will captivate readers with annotations that explore the rich social and cultural dimensions of the nineteenth century and construct a compelling portrait of a writer whose stories still fascinate us today.

Containing 40 stories in new translations by Tatar this celebration of the richness and dramatic power of the legendary fables also features 150 illustrations, many of them in color, by legendary painters.

Danish poet and novelist Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) is best known for the dozens of fairy tales he wrote, including "The Little Mermaid," "The Ugly Duckling," and "The Snow Queen." Andersen's sense of fantasy, power of description, and acute sensitivity are strikingly evident in his autobiography. Andersen masterfully depicts the extreme poverty of his provincial childhood and the international celebrity of his later years, and also provides insights into the sources of many of his most famous tales.

Twenty-six classic fairy tales are supplemented by extensive literary, cultural, and historical commentary.

Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species is one of the most important and yet least read scientific works in the history of science. The Annotated Origin is a facsimile of the first edition of 1859, and is accompanied by James T. Costa’s marginal annotations, drawing on his extensive experience with Darwin’s ideas in the field, lab, and classroom.

Andersen's Fairy Tales Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Stories are like exquisite jewels, pulling from us gasps of acknowledgment and joy. Andersen created interesting and unique personas -- a tin soldier with only 1 leg but a huge center, a beetle nestled deep in a horse's mane but harboring high dreams. Every one of us sometimes has been handled by one of Andersen's Fairy Stories. Here you will discover his classic stories such as: "The Mermaid, Thumbelina, The Steadfast Tin Soldier, "and "The Ugly Duckling," 38 of your preferred tales in every. This deluxe Children's Basic model is produced with high-quality, leatherlike binding with yellow metal stamping, full-color addresses, colored endpapers with a reserve nameplate. A number of the other game titles in this series include Anne of Green Gables, Dark Beauty, Heidi, Ruler Arthur and His Knights and THE TRICK Garden.