Contents
Denmark’s Perfect Wizard
Ordering the Tales: From the Familiar to the Strange
PART I: TALES FOR CHILDREN
The Emperor’s New Clothes
The Snow Queen
The Princess and the Pea
The Nightingale
The Ugly Duckling
The Little Mermaid
The Tinderbox
The Wild Swans
Thumbelina
The Little Match Girl
The Steadfast Tin Soldier
Ole Shut-Eye
PART II: TALES FOR ADULTS
The Red Shoes
The Shadow
The Psyche
The Most Astonishing Thing
The Story of a Mother
The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf
The Phoenix
The Goblin and the Grocer
Auntie Toothache
The Flying Trunk
Heartache
The Bell
PART III: BIOGRAPHIES
A Fairy-Tale Life? Hans Christian Andersen
Andersen’s Illustrators
PART IV: ANDERSEN’S READERS
PART V: BIBLIOGRAPHY
Acknowledgments
Works by Hans Christian Andersen
Secondary Literature