Hans Christian Andersen – The Fir Tree
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The Fir Tree by Hans Christian Andersen The Fir Tree Fairy Tale by Hans Christian Andersen The Fir Tree Far down in the forest, where the warm sun and the fresh air made a sweet resting-place, grew a pretty little fir-tree; and yet it was not happy, it wished so much to be tall like […]
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Hans Christian Andersen – The Little Elder-tree Mother
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The Little Elder-tree Mother by Hans Christian Andersen The Little Elder-tree Mother Fairy Tale by Hans Christian Andersen The Little Elder-tree Mother There was once a little boy who had caught cold; he had gone out and got wet feet. Nobody had the least idea how it had happened; the weather was quite dry. His […]
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Hans Christian Andersen – The Elfin Hill
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The Elfin Hill by Hans Christian Andersen The Elfin Hill Fairy Tale by Hans Christian Andersen The Elfin Hill A few large lizards were running nimbly about in the clefts of an old tree; they could understand one another very well, for they spoke the lizard language. “What a buzzing and a rumbling there is […]
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Hans Christian Andersen – The Red Shoes
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The Red Shoes by Hans Christian Andersen The Red Shoes Fairy Tale by Hans Christian Andersen The Red Shoes Once upon a time there was little girl, pretty and dainty. But in summer time she was obliged to go barefooted because she was poor, and in winter she had to wear large wooden shoes, so […]
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Hans Christian Andersen – The Jumper
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The Jumper by Hans Christian Andersen The Jumper Fairy Tale by Hans Christian Andersen The Jumper The Flea, the Grasshopper, and the Skipjack once wanted to see which of them could jump highest; and they invited the whole world, and whoever else would come, to see the grand sight. And there the three famous jumpers […]
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Hans Christian Andersen – The Ugly Duckling
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The Ugly Duckling by Hans Christian Andersen The Ugly Duckling Fairy Tale by Hans Christian Andersen The Ugly Duckling It was lovely summer weather in the country, and the golden corn, the green oats, and the haystacks piled up in the meadows looked beautiful. The stork walking about on his long red legs chattered in […]
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Hans Christian Andersen – The Top and Ball
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The Top and Ball by Hans Christian Andersen The Top and Ball Fairy Tale by Hans Christian Andersen The Top and Ball A whipping top and a little ball lay together in a box, among other toys, and the top said to the ball, “Shall we be married, as we live in the same box?” […]
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Hans Christian Andersen – The Angel
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The Angel by Hans Christian Andersen The Angel Fairy Tale by Hans Christian Andersen The Angel “Whenever a good child dies, an angel of God comes down from heaven, takes the dead child in his arms, spreads out his great white wings, and flies with him over all the places which the child had loved […]
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Hans Christian Andersen – The Snow Queen
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The Snow Queen from Stories from Hans Andersen by Hans Christian Andersen The Snow Queen Fairy Tale by Hans Christian Andersen Illustrations by Edmund Dulac The Snow Queen A Tale In Seven Stories First Story Which Deals With A Mirror And Its Fragments Now we are about to begin, and you must attend; and when […]
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Hans Christian Andersen – The Nightingale
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The Nightingale from Stories from Hans Andersen by Hans Christian Andersen The Nightingale Fairy Tale by Hans Christian Andersen Illustrations by Edmund Dulac The Nightingale In China, as you know, the Emperor is a Chinaman, and all the people around him are Chinamen too. It is many years since the story I am going to […]
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Hans Christian Andersen – The Swineherd
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The Swineherd by Hans Christian Andersen The Swineherd Fairy Tale by Hans Christian Andersen The Swineherd Once upon a time lived a poor prince; his kingdom was very small, but it was large enough to enable him to marry, and marry he would. It was rather bold of him that he went and asked the […]
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Hans Christian Andersen – The Shepherd’s Story of the Bond of Friendship
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The Shepherd’s Story of the Bond of Friendship by Hans Christian Andersen The Shepherd’s Story of the Bond of Friendship Fairy Tale by Hans Christian Andersen The Shepherd’s Story of the Bond of Friendship The little dwelling in which we lived was of clay, but the door-posts were columns of fluted marble, found near the […]
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