Selected Masterpieces of World Literature — Andersen's Fairy Tales

Author: Hans Christian Andersen (Denmark) translated by Mi Yunpeng
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Publish Date: 2002-08-01
Features: The tales of Hans Christian Andersen have accompanied children around the world in joyful growth. These wonderful stories have enriched the lives of childhood and inspired children's imagination. Andersen's fairy tales are distinct in their love and hate, profound in meaning, and possess very universal educational significance. Many readers, consciously or unconsciously, have spent their lives recreating these beautiful and moving stories again and again, allowing the characters in the tales to gradually become richer and more perfect as the readers grow older. The foolish emperor in The Little Mermaid, The Ugly Duckling, The Nightingale, and the scene of the naked emperor parading through the streets in The Emperor's New Clothes seem to be echoes of our own lives. In the history of world literature, it is hard to find a more influential fairy tale writer than Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875). His fairy tales are like Edison's electric light, illuminating every life's journey.