Hans Christian Andersen is the best-loved of all tellers of fairy tales.This collection of over forty of Andersen’s most popular stories includes The Mermaid, The Real Princess, The Red Shoes, The Little Match Girl, The Snow Queen, The Tinder Box, The Ugly Duckling and many more.It is delightfully illustrated in black-and white by those remarkable brothers, Charles, Thomas and William Heath RobinsonThe MermaidHans ClodhopperThe Flying TrunkThe Rose ElfThe Wild SwansThe Elf-HillThe Real PrincessA Picture from the RampartsThe Red ShoesThumbelisaThe Goblin and the HucksterThe Bottle NeckThe Steadfast Tin SoldierThe AngelThe ButterflyPsycheThe Snail and the Rose-bushThe Girl Who Trod on a LoafThe NightingaleThe StorksThe Little Match GirlGreat Claus and Little ClausThe Garden of ParadiseLittle TukThe Wind’s Tale about Waldemar Daa and his DaughtersThe Snow Queen: A Tale in Seven StoriesA Rose from Homer’s GraveThe Emperor’s New ClothesThe Naughty BoyHolger the DaneWhat the Moon SawThe Tinder BoxThe Story of a MotherThe Marsh King’s DaughterThe Galoshes of FortuneThe Bronze BoarThe BellOlé Luköié, the DustmanThe SwineherdThe Travelling CompanionsThe Ugly Duckling