Hans Christian Andersen (Odense, 2 aprile 1805 – Copenaghen, 4 agosto 1875) è stato uno scrittore e poeta danese, celebre per le sue fiabe. Tra le sue opere più note al pubblico di ogni età vi sono "La principessa sul pisello"(1835), "Mignolina"(1835), "La sirenetta"(1837), "La regina delle nevi"(1844), "Il soldatino di stagno", "Il brutto anatroccolo" e "La piccola fiammiferaia"(1845). Il grande scrittore danese ha attinto certamente, da una parte, alla vasta tradizione popolare del suo Paese ed europea, e dall"altra, alla sua immaginazione creatrice. Traduzione a cura di Maria Pezzè Pascolato (Venezia, 1869 – 22 febbraio 1933), pedagogista, scrittrice e insegnante italiana.

Andersen's Fairy Tales by Hans Chrstian Andersen. All the best-loved fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen, including “The Emperor’s New Clothes,” The Snow Queen, The Red Shoes, The Little Match Girl, and many more. This   is a great book of bedtime stories or for rainy-day reading. wander through the imagination of one of the most popular children’s writers of all time.

The Wild Swans is one of the eighteen stories featured in this timeless collection of fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen. The story tells of a faraway kingdom where lives a widowed King with his twelve children: eleven princes and one princess. One day, he decides to remarry. He marries a wicked queen who was a witch. Out of spite, the queen turns her eleven stepsons into swans and forces them to fly away. The queen then tries to bewitch their 15-year old sister Elisa.

The dear old Moon befriends an artist and appears to tell him of one thing or another that he has seen on the previous night or on that same evening. The Moon prompts the artist to paint the scenes described, and so their friendship continues. What the moon saw is one of the twenty stories featured in this timeless collection of fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen.

Hans Christian Andersen (1805 – 1875) was a Danish author. Although a prolific writer of plays, travelogues, novels, and poems, Andersen is best remembered for his fairy tales. Andersen"s popularity is not limited to children; his stories, called eventyr in Danish or "fairy-tales" in English, express themes that transcend age and nationality. Andersen"s fairy tales, which have been translated into more than 125 languages, have become culturally embedded in the West"s collective consciousness, readily accessible to children, but presenting lessons of virtue and resilience in the face of adversity for mature readers as well. In this ebook you got eighteen of his most famous fairy tales include "The Emperor"s New Clothes", "The Snow Queen", "The real princess", and many more. English Translation: H. P. Paull (1872).