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Hans Christian Andersen
Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales
Published by Good Press, 2021
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EAN 4064066462468
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THE MARSH KING'S DAUGHTER
TOMMELISE
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ELFIN-MOUNT
THE LITTLE MERMAID
THE STORKS
THE NIGHTINGALE
THE WILD SWANS
THE REAL PRINCESS
THE RED SHOES
THE EMPEROR'S NEW CLOTHES
THE SWINEHERD
THE FLYING TRUNK
THE LEAPING MATCH
THE SHEPHERDESS AND THE CHIMNEY-SWEEPER
THE UGLY DUCKLING
THE NAUGHTY BOY
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'The bud opened into a full-blown flower, in the middle of which lay a beautiful child'. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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'She stood at the door and begged for a piece of barley-corn'. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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'Yes ! I will go with thee, said Tommelise, and she seated herself on the bird's back. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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'The swing moves and the bubbles fly upward with bright ever-changing colours'. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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'He did not come to woo her, he said, he had only come to hear the wisdom of the princess'. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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'Round and round they went, such whirling and twirling'. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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'She put the statue in her garden'. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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'With the rest of the children of air, soared high above the rosy cloud'. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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'We will bring him two little ones, a brother and a sister'. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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'Then began the nightingale to sing'. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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'The peasant's wife sat on Sundays at the door of her cottage reading her hymn-book'. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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'Princesses he found in plenty, but whether they were real princesses it was impossible for him to decide'. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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'She sat down one day and made out of some old pieces of red cloth a pair of little shoes'. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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'The Swineherd scolded and the rain poured down'. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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'She sat the live-long day upon the roof of her palace, expecting him'. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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'He jumped down from the old man's lap and danced around him on the floor'. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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THE MARSH KING'S DAUGHTER
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For other versions of this work, see The Marsh King's Daughter.
SHE UNDERSTOOD THE SPEECH OF BIRDS
THE MARSH KING'S DAUGHTER
THE storks tell their young ones ever so many fairy tales, all of them from the fen and the moss. Generally the tales are suited to the youngsters' age and understanding. The baby birds are pleased if they are told just 'kribly, krably, plurry-murry!' which they think wonderful; but the older ones will have something with more sense in it, or, at the least, a tale about themselves. Of the two oldest and
