H. C. Andersen
1805–1875
Biography
H. C. Andersen (1805–1875) was a Danish writer born in Odense to a poor family. As a young man he went to Copenhagen hoping for a career on the stage, and for years he struggled to make his way as a writer. He tried his hand at plays, novels, travel books and poems, but the works that made him famous were his fairy tales, the first of which were published in 1835.
His stories, among them The Little Mermaid, The Emperor's New Clothes, The Ugly Duckling and The Snow Queen, combine the feel of folk tales with a chatty, personal voice that speaks directly to the reader. They have been translated into well over a hundred languages and have inspired ballets, plays and films. They remain among the most widely read stories in the world, and they are still read aloud to children in many countries.
The site holds Fabeloj de Andersen, a collection of his tales in Esperanto. The title, which means Andersen's fairy tales, shows how far his stories travelled beyond Danish. Readers who know the stories in English or in the original can compare them with this version.
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Books
Fabeloj de Andersen
by H. C. Andersen (translated by Frederik Skeel-Giørling)
Five of Hans Christian Andersen's best-loved fairy tales in Frederik Skeel-Giørling's 1909 Esperanto translation. A tin soldier with one leg, a mother who follows Death to win back her child, a soldier with a witch's tinderbox, a princess tested with a pea and a girl selling…
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