Andersen's Fairy Tales (Classic Books on CD Collection) [UNABRIDGED] by Hans Christian Andersen and Flo Gibson

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Andersen's Fairy Tales (Classic Books on CD Collection) [UNABRIDGED]
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Features

Reading level: Ages 4-8

Audio CD: 3 pages

Publisher: Audio Book Contractors, Inc. (October 16, 2007)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 155685949X

ISBN-13: 978-1556859496

Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 6.2 x 1 inches

Shipping Weight: 8 ounces ()

From Booklist
This collection of new translations of 30 stories, most of them among the best known in world literature, is justified on at least two counts. The first is editor Wullschlager's fine introduction, which discriminates three periods in Andersen's story-writing career and traces his and the stories' parallel developments from youthful pluck and optimism through midlife introspection and doubt to elderly fear and wistful hope. Distilling her brilliant, full-scale study Hans Christian^B Andersen^B (2000), Wullschlager shows how Andersen's psychological peculiarities and lasting neuroses inform the stories, points up the serious preoccupations and tragic undercurrents in Andersen's work, and stresses the oral, vernacular character of Andersen's artistry that has been so hard to translate adequately. The book's other great justification lies in translator Nunnally's work, which so persuasively renders Andersen's distinctive voice as Wullschlager--and Nunnally's invaluable translator's note--describes it. Adding value to the enterprise are the illustrations (unavailable for review), one per selection, which depict the paper cutouts Andersen made to accompany his oral delivery of his work. Ray Olson
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Reader Reviews
This review is from: Fairy Tales (Hardcover) I've read several versions of many of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales; since I also read Danish, I can confirm that this is definitely the closest to his style of any translation I've ever seen. Nothing is added, nothing is omitted, and all his unique strangeness shines through in English at last. Andersen was the first Danish author to break out of the mold of both neoclassicism and romanticism which preceded him, and his genius lay in writing as if he were telling the stories out loud to a group of children -- in the earlier, simpler tales -- and in capturing all the sorrow and joy of life in his later tales for adults. You may think you know these stories (no, there are no singing crabs in "The Little Mermaid," one of the more painful stories you will ever read), but you're in for a big surprise. Finally a translator who dares NOT to rewrite, explain, and simplify Hans Christian Andersen! Truly a magnificent edition in celebration of the author's bicentennial on April 2, 2005. (Read the biography by Jens Andersen too, it's a real eye-opener.)

Andersen's Fairy Tales (Classic Books on CD Collection) [UNABRIDGED]
List Price: $28.95
Available from Amazon
Price: $28.95
Updated on 12-28-2008.