Hans Christian Andersen: The Complete Fairy Tales and Stories

xvi, 1101 pp. Unlike the Brothers Grimm, who collected and retold folklore, Andersen adopted the most ancient literary forms of the fairy tale and the folklore and distilled them into a genre that was uniquely his own. Erik Haugaard has scrupulously followed the text and the order of the stories in the original Danish edition of 1874. This edition includes Andersen's own notes to his stories.