Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales
Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales , World Edition, 4 vols. A while back I decided I wanted to find the best edition of HCA's tales possible, and I came up with this: a 1959 four-volume set issued at Odense, which is where HCA was born.* It's a very satisfying set, with little, fat hardbacks perfect for holding in your hand. Each one has a different portrait in the front. They're illustrated with the original drawings by Vilhelm Pedersen, who HCA chose himself, and the final volume has illustrations by Lorenz Fr ΓΈ lich, who continued the work after Pedersen's death. I don't know that this is a complete and exhaustive collection of HCA's tales; he wrote a lot of things that weren't exactly fairy tales or poems or plays, so it would be difficult to make a complete list. I did notice that "The Daisy" is not in this set. I'm not sure how the stories are arranged; it's not by date (I checked) and almost all of the most famous stories are ...