Andersen's Fairy Tales. ILLUSTRATED.

Too often the fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen are lumped with those collected by the Brothers Grimm, yet Andersen did not seek to simply preserve a form of oral tradition. Although his characters were the stuff of folklore-sprites, trolls, mermaids-he produced, in addition to definitive editions of traditional tales (such as "The Princess on the Pea"), entirely new works, woven by his own imagination. Andersen represents a dramatic and revolutionary shift in perspective; before his t...