Stories and tales

Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian) 1805-1875 (Author).

Item details

Physical Description: print
532 pages : illustrations
Edition: Author's ed.
Publisher: New York : Hurd & Houghton, 1871.

Contents / Notes

Formatted Contents Note:

A picture book without pictures -- Little Tuk -- Ib and Christine -- Five out of one shell -- Charming -- Peiter, Peter, and Peer -- The ice maiden -- What happened to the thistle -- The story of the year -- The loveliest rose in the world -- The picture from the castle ramparts -- The Elder Tree Mother -- A vision of the last day -- The greenies -- What one can invent -- "It's quite true!" -- Anne Lisbeth -- The candles -- Good humor -- The princess on the pea -- The old street lamp -- Everything in its right place -- In a thousand years -- A string of pearls -- The most extraordinary thing -- Under the willow-tree -- "There's a difference" -- A leaf from the sky -- Children's prattle -- The swans' nest -- Psyche -- The old grave-stone -- The comet -- From a window in Vartou -- "Good-for-nothing" -- Two maidens -- "In the uttermost parts of the sea" -- The windmill -- The neck of a bottle -- Golden treasure -- Great-Grandfather -- Holger Danske -- The old bachelor's nightcap -- Luck may lie in a pin -- "Something" -- The wind's tale -- The horn-book -- The old oak-tree's last dream -- The thorny path of honor -- Ole the watchman -- The days of the week -- Danish popular legends -- The child in the grave -- "What the good-man does is sure to be right!" -- The Jewish girl -- Two brothers -- The old church-bell -- The last pearl -- The Bishop of Börglum and his kindred -- The storm moves the sign-boards -- Kept close is not forgotten -- The porter's son -- Aunty -- Chicken Grethe's family -- The bird of popular song -- The tea-pot -- The muse of the coming age -- "The will-o'-the wisp is in the town" -- The story of a mother -- Which was the happiest -- The drop of water -- The shepherdess and the chimney-sweep -- The rose-elf -- The butterfly -- A story from the Sand Hills -- The little match girl -- Flitting day -- The rags -- What the whole family said.