Andersen's Fairy Tales

Andersen wrote new fairy tales, he did not only collect old ones. An emperor is fooled by empty cloth. A toy soldier loves a dancer. A small fir tree wants to be somewhere else until it is too late. The endings are often gentle and sometimes honestly sad. This collection uses a public-domain English translation. The stories are short enough to read one at night, and strong enough that the sad ones should not be sprung on a child with no warning.

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