Hans Christian Andersen: The Complete Fairy Tales & Stories [Anchor Folktale Library]
Author: Hans Christian Andersen; translated by Erik Hougaard; read by: Jill Fox
©1974 Anchor; Audiobook ©2007
Unabridged (Total Duration: 41:24:42)
Orig. Media: Audio CD


Translated by Erik Hougaard, this is the only version available in audiobook form that presents the fairy tales exactly as Andersen collected them in the original Danish edition in 1874.

Hans Christian Andersen is one of the immortals of world literature. The fairy tales he wrote, such as "The Snow Queen," "The Ugly Duckling," "The Red Shoes," and "The Nightingale," are remarkable for their sense of fantasy, power of description, and acute sensitivity, and they are like no others written before or since. Unlike the Brothers Grimm, who collected and retold folklore, Andersen adopted the most ancient literary forms of the fairy tale and the folktale and distilled them into a genre that was uniquely his own.

In preparing this first English translation of the complete fairy tales and stories as collected and told by Andersen, Erik Haugaard has scrupulously followed the text and the order of the stories in the original Danish edition of 1874. Recognizing the literary merit of Andersen's own simple colloquial language, which Victorian translators and their imitators very often altered to sentimentalize or vulgarize, Haugaard has remained faithful to the original text. This edition includes Andersen's own notes to his stories. As Virginia Haviland comments in her Foreword, "This new work, in its fresh and authentic transmission, and with Andersen's notes accompanying the translation, is offered as a contribution to the history of a literature that belongs to every age."



TABLE OF CONTENTS . . .

I. FOREWARD by Virginia Haviland (04:44)
II. INTRODUCTION by Erik Christian Haugaard (09:27)
01. The Tinderbox (15:58)
02. Little Claus and Big Claus 27:01)
03. The Princess and the Pea (aka The Real Princess) (02:14)
04. Little Ida's Flowers (16:27)
05. Inchelina (aka Thumbelina) (23:38)
06. The Naughty Boy (aka The Saucy Boy) (04:31)
07. The Traveling Companion (42:47)
08. The Little Mermaid (53:42)
09. The Emperor's New Clothes (09:39)
10. The Magic Galoshes (aka The Goloshes of Fortune) (1:02:26)
11. The Daisy (08:51)
12. The Steadfast Tin Soldier (aka The Brave Tin Soldier) (09:49)
13. The Wild Swans (37:46)
14. The Garden of Eden (aka The Garden of Paradise) (33:07)
15. The Flying Trunk (13:12)
16. The Storks (10:07)
17. The Bronze Pig (aka The Metal Pig) (25:52)
18. The Pact of Friendship (aka The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship) (19:50)
19. A Rose From Homer's Grave (03:17)
20. The Sandman (aka Ole-Luk-Oie, The Dream-God) (24:31)
21. The Rose Elf (aka The Elf of the Rose) (10:47)
22. The Swineherd (10:21)
23. The Buckwheat (04:05)
24. The Angel (05:48)

25. The Nightingale (22:36)
26. The Sweethearts (aka The Top and Ball) (04:59)
27. The Ugly Duckling (21:33)
28. The Pine Tree (aka The Fir-Tree) (19:43)
29. The Snow Queen (1:12:24)
30. Mother Elderberry (aka The Little Elder-Tree Mother) (18:32)
31. The Darning Needle (07:25)
32. The Bell (12:01)
33. Grandmother (04:35)
34. The Hill of the Elves (aka The Elfin Hill) (15:44)
35. The Red Shoes (13:53)
36. The Jumping Competition (aka The Jumper) (03:55)
37. The Shepherdess and the Chimney Sweep (aka The Shepherdess and the Sheep) (10:23)
38. Holger the Dane (aka Holger Danske) (09:16)
39. The Little Match Girl (aka The Little Match-Seller) (05:10)
40. From the Ramparts of the Citadel (aka The Sunbeam and the Captive) (01:58)
41. From a Window in Vartov (aka By the Almshouse Window) (03:53)
42. The Old Street Lamp (14:55)
43. The Neighbors (aka The Neighboring Families) (21:33)
44. Little Tuck (08:55)
45. The Shadow (27:48)
46. The Old House (17:27)
47. A Drop of Water (03:26)
48. The Happy Family (07:41)
49. The Story of a Mother (11:32)
50. The Collar (aka The Shirt-Collar) (05:29)
51. The Flax (09:20)
52. The Bird Phoenix (aka The Phoenix Bird) (03:00)
53. A Story (10:15)
54. The Silent Album (aka The Dumb Book) (04:13)
55. The Old Gravestone (06:57)
56. There Is a Difference (aka The Conceited Apple-Branch) (07:36)
57. The World's Most Beautiful Rose (aka The Loveliest Rose in the World) (04:51)
58. The Year's Story (aka The Story of the Year) (20:08)
59. On the Last Day (aka On Judgement Day) (08:28)
60. It is Perfectly True! (aka There Is No Doubt About It) (04:55)
61. The Swan's Nest (03:02)
62. A Happy Disposition (aka A Cheerful Temper) (09:02)
63. Grief (aka A Great Grief) (04:17)
64. Everything in its Right Place (17:44)

65. The Pixy and the Grocer (aka The Goblin and the Huckster) (08:08)
66. The Millennium (aka In a Thousand Years) (04:28)
67. Under the Willow Tree (34:04)
68. Five Peas From the Same Pod (aka The Pea Blossom) (07:16)
69. A Leaf From Heaven (06:50)
70. She was no Good (aka She Was Good For Nothing) (16:55)
71. The Last Pearl (05:19)
72. The Two Maidens (03:52)
73. The Uttermost Parts of the Sea (04:03)
74. The Piggy Bank (aka The Money-Box) (04:31)
75. Ib and Little Christina (23:50)
76. Clod Hans (aka Jack the Dullard) (08:25)
77. The Thorny Path (aka The Thorny Road of Honor) (09:24)
78. The Servant (aka The Jewish Maiden) (10:02)
79. The Bottle (aka The Bottle Neck) (22:18)
80. The Philosopher's Stone (34:54)
81. How to Cook Soup Upon a Sausage Pin (aka Soup from a Sausage Skewer) (30:14)
82. The Pepperman's Nightcap (aka The Old Bachelor's Nightcap) (27:08)
83. "Something" (14:55)
84. The Old Oak Tree's Last Dream--A Christmas Story (aka The Last Dream of the Old Oak) (12:02)
85. The Talisman (04:29)
86. The Bog King's Daughter (aka The Marsh King's Daughter) (1:18:37)
87. The Winners (aka The Racers) (06:42)
88. The Bell Deep (08:23)
89. The Evil King--A Legend (aka The Wicked Prince) (05:27)
90. What the Wind Told About Valdemar Daae and His Daughters (aka The Story of the Wind) (28:05)
91. The Girl Who Stepped on Bread (aka The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf) (18:40)
92. The Watchman of the Tower (aka Ole the Tower-Keeper) (14:27) *Note: Some editions have an addt. chapter to this story
93. Anne Lisbeth (24:36)
94. Children's Prattle (04:52)

95. A String of Pearls (14:16)
96. The Pen and the Inkwell (aka The Pen and the Inkstand) (05:26)
97. The Dead Child (aka The Child in the Grave) (09:51)
98. The Cock and the Weathercock (aka The Farm-yard Cock and the Weather-Cock) (05:24)
99. "Lovely" (aka Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind) (15:59)
100. The Story from the Dunes (aka A Story from the Sand-hills) (1:19:36)
101. The Puppeteer (aka The Puppet-show Man) (09:48)
102. The Two Brothers (03:45)
103. The Old Church Bell [Written for the Schiller Album] (10:03)
104. The Twelve Passengers (aka The Mail-Coach Passengers) (08:18)
105. The Dung Beetle (aka The Beetle Who Went On His Travels) (17:44)
106. What Father Does is Always Right (aka What the Old Man Does Is Always Right) (11:07)
107. The Snowman (12:13)
108. In the Duckyard (aka The Portuguese Duck) (13:43)
109. The Muse of the Twentieth Century (aka The New Century's Goddess) (14:18)
110. The Ice Maiden (1:53:31)
111. The Butterfly (05:14)
112. Psyche (aka The Psyche) (28:23)
113. The Snail and the Rosebush (aka The Snail and the Rose-Tree) (05:24)
114. "The Will-O'-The-Wisps Are in Town," Said the Bog Witch (aka "The Will-O'-the-Wisp Is in the Town," Says the Moor-Woman) (30:32)
115. The Windmill (06:01)
116. The Silver Shilling (09:21)
117. The Bishop of Börglum Cloister and his Kinsmen (aka The Bishop of Börglum and his Warriors) (15:12)
118. In the Children's Room (aka In the Nursery) (07:41)
119. The Golden Treasure (18:34)
120. How the Storm Changed the Signs (aka The Storm Shakes the Shield) (10:05)

121. The Teapot (03:46)
122. The Songbird of the People--A Mood (aka The Bird of Popular Song) (07:13)
123. The Little Green Ones (04:38)
124. The Pixy and the Gardener's Wife (aka The Goblin and the Woman) (10:01)
125. Peiter, Peter, and Peer (10:54)
126. Hidden But Not Forgotten (aka "Delaying is not Forgetting") (06:14)
127. The Janitor's Son (aka The Porter's Son) (40:34)
128. Moving Day (09:38)
129. The Snowdrop (08:37)
130. Auntie (aka Our Aunt) (12:19)
131. The Toad (16:09)
132. Godfather's Picture Book (54:57)
133. The Rags (04:39)
134. The Two Islands (aka Vänö and Glänö) (04:14)
135. Who Was The Happiest? (aka Which Was the Happiest?) (10:05)
136. The Wood Nymph (aka The Dryad) (48:52)
137. The Family of Hen-Grethe (aka Poultry Meg's Family) (30:31)
138. The Adventures of a Thistle (aka The Thistles Experiences) (08:16)
139. A Question of Imagination (aka What One Can Invent) (07:50)
140. Luck Can Be Found in a Stick (aka Luck May Lie in a Pin) (05:03)
141. The Comet (08:36)
142. The Days of the Week (04:03)
143. The Sunshine's Story (06:14)
144. Great-Grandfather (09:44)
145. The Candles (05:23)
146. The Most Incredible (aka The Most Incredible Thing) (07:47)
147. What the Whole Family Said (05:06)
148. "Dance, Dance, Dolly Mine!" (02:18)
149. "It is you the Fable is About" (aka This Fable Is Intended For You) (01:48)
150. The Great Sea Serpent (20:03)
151. The Gardener and His Master (aka The Gardener and the Noble Family) (13:48)
152. The Professor and the Flea (aka The Flea and the Professor) (08:28)
153. The Story Old Johanna Told (aka What Old Johanne Told) (29:28)
154. The Front Door Key (aka The Gate Key) (23:45)
155. The Cripple (18:02)
156. Auntie Toothache (23:41)
III. TRANSLATOR'S NOTE (01:21)
IV. AUTHOR'S PREFACE (02:45)
V. AUTHOR'S NOTES (52:27)


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