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4) Fairy tales
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
A bicentennial publication by an award-winning translator features thirty of Andersen's tales including "The Tinderbox," "The Emperor's New Clothes," and "The Little Mermaid," in a volume complemented by the writer's paper-cut illustrations.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Set in Denmark in the here and now, The Quiet Girl centers around Kaspar Krone, a world-renowned circus clown with a deep love for the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, and an even deeper gambling debt. Wanted for tax evasion and on the verge of extradition, Krone is drafted into the service of a mysterious order of nuns who promise him reprieve from the international authorities in return for his help safeguarding a group of children with
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Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
"A richly entertaining and informative collection of Hans Christian Andersen's stories, annotated by one of America's leading folklore scholars. In her most ambitious annotated work to date, Maria Tatar celebrates the stories told by Denmark's 'perfect wizard and re-envisions Hans Christian Andersen as a writer who casts his spell on both children and adults. Andersen's most beloved tales, such as 'The Emperor's New Clothes, 'The Ugly Duckling, and...
Author
Publisher
Checkerboard Press
Pub. Date
c1988
Language
English
Description
Nine of the Great Dane's tales: The Little Mermaid, The Ugly Duckling, The Steadfast Tin Soldier, The Nightingale, Thumbelina, Great Claus and Little Claus, The Emperor's New Clothes, The Fir Tree, and The Princess and the Pea.
Author
Series
Publisher
Canterbury Classics
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A collection of sixty-four fairy tales, including a translation by Compass Languages of "The Tallow Candle," written by Andersen early in his career but only recently discovered, and such classics as "Thumbelina" and "The Little Mermaid," as translated by Jean Hersholt.
18) Invisible murder
Author
Series
Nina Borg mysteries volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the ruins of an abandoned Soviet military hospital in northern Hungary, two impoverished Roma boys are scavenging for old supplies or weapons they could sell on the black market when they find more than they ever anticipated. The resulting chain of events threatens to blow the lives of a frightening number of people into bits and pieces.