About this title: A new selection of 30 tales to mark the 200 year anniversary of Andersen's birth in 2005. Tiina Nunnally's sparkling translation captures the rawness and immediacy of Andersen's style, for the first time enabling English readers to be as startled and amazed as his original readers were, and revealing the unique inventiveness of Andersen's genius. ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Weathervane Books
Date Published: 1986
ISBN-13:9781851700660ISBN:1851700668
Description: Very Good. Item is mailed from New York within 48 hours, and takes about 4-10 days to arrive within the USA. International Orders may take 7-14 days. read more
Description: Acceptable. ---377 pages. Interior-there is cracking on the inside-front w/ uniform yellowing throughout the text. The boards have light-to-moderate wear/soiling, and there is insect damage w/ splitting along the gutters. -Publish Place: -Size: 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. read more
Description: Good. Dust Cover Missing. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Viking Adult
Date Published: 2005-03-24
ISBN-13:9780670033775ISBN:0670033774
Description: Very good. Very minimal damage to the cover (no holes or tears, only minimal scuff marks), in some instances dust jackets are not included, no missing pages, minimal to no highlighting/under. read more
Description: Good. 0670033774 Former library item may have library binding and show stamps, stickers or other marks. Items not meeting quality expectations may be returned. Due to the large scale of our operation, we do not have access to the specific contents/condition of our items. read more
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Junior Deluxe Editions, Garden City
Date Published: 0000
Description: Jean O'Neill. Fair. This book is in fair condition. The pages are intact. The spine is coming loose. There are some marks throughout this book. It has been well loved. read more
"I still have the copy from my childhood, illustrated by Arthur Szyk. His illustrations emphasize the sad & creepy aspects of the stories in a way that gave me chills when I was a kid, and still kind of creep me out. I'm going to have to re-read my book, now that I've added it to my GR collection."
"Ok. I am pretty sure this is not the one I read, but the one I have is pretty old and probably not on here. I asked for a book of original fairy tales for Christmas one year and got this and could not have been happier. In it, there are a ton of unedited-for-Disney stories that range from pretty basic to totally bizarre. A favorite short one is "The Jumping Contest" in which a flea, a "jumping jack", and some other thing all have a contest to see who can jump highest. Whoever does gets to marry the princess. The jumping jack wins through some kind of cunning and even though I have no idea what he is, he gets to marry the princess. Huzzah! There are also some incredibly gory ones, including "The Rose Elf" in which an elf exacts revenge on a bad guy and includes a moderately graphic decapitation."
"¡Oh Hans, cuán ñoño eres! ¡Cuán simplísticamente moralino! ¡Cuán capaz de ahogar el más simple argumento con exclamativas! Leí este libro hasta el final, porque me gusta conocer historias nuevas, y porque alguna de las viejas no las conozco en su formato habitual. Por ejemplo, La sirenita, que languidece como su protagonista hasta un final "redentor" que elimina cualquier fuerza dramática inicial.
Si hay un héroe en la comunidad escéptica, es el niño que grita "el rey está desnudo": la representación, dirían, de aquel que no se deja engañar por el discurso social y recurre a la evidencia para formar su opinión.
Pues bien, amigos, úsenlo así si quieren, pero sepan que para Hans, el niño dice la verdad PORQUE ES UN NIÑO SIMPLE, PURO Y NATURAL. No hay una pizca de racionalidad en este ni en ningún otro cuento. Y no se trata, por supuesto, de ser cuentos de hadas. Se trata de que HCA es de un romanticismo reconcentrado: la virtud de la inocencia, la pureza del amor, la frialdad de la ciencia y de la razón, y así hasta el hartazgo. Sí se burla a menudo de la pomposidad y la petulancia, pero el entorno de otros cuentos hacen que uno se cuestione fuertemente las razones.
Dejo el libro con la amarga sensación de conocer, ahora una de las líneas más ponzoñosas de nuestro inconciente colectivo, y temo pensar en la concepción de infancia que los impulsa. Aguante los hermanos Grimm."
"People forget that HCA's tales are often not for the faint of heart. They are used to the sanitized modern versions with the Hollywood endings. I am specifically recommending The Angel. As sad and unsentimental as they come. Very short. Very sad. I'm guessing that these are the 2 reasons it remains hard to find, not in most HCA compilations. Available for free online too. It's the teary sadness that makes it ultimately a happy story of hope and faith."
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