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(0)Jean Hersholt
Author
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
This complete collection of Andersen's 156 stories is based on Jean Hersholt's classic translation. Around 90 of the stories are illustrated with reproductions of original illustrations from classic Edwardian to contemporary illustrators. There are also 13 newly commissioned illustrations for some of Andersen's less well-known stories.
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
All the best-loved fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen, including ?The Ugly Duckling,? ?Thumbelina,? ?The Red Shoes,? ?The Princess on the Pea,? and ?The Emperor?s New Clothes,? fill the pages of this beautiful leather-bound collector?s edition. Also included is ?The Tallow Candle? - one of the earliest stories written by Andersen, just discovered recently! With both short and long anecdotes, this is a great book of bedtime stories or for rainy-day...
3) Heidi
Series
Shirley Temple collection volume 1
Language
English
Description
Story of a girl sent to live with her hermit grandfather in the Alps, where her influence reconciles her grandfather to the town. Then her aunt takes her away from the grandfather she has come to love, to live in Frankfurt as the companion of a crippled girl whom Heidi encourages to try walking again.
7) Grand Hotel
Edition
Special edition.
Language
English
Description
Berlin's plushest, most expensive hotel is the setting where in the words of Dr. Otternschlag "People come, people go. Nothing ever happens.". The doctor is usually drunk so he misses the fact that Baron von Geigern is broke and trying to steal eccentric dancer Grusinskaya's pearls, but ends up stealing her heart instead. Powerful German businessman Preysing brow beats his lowly bookkeeper, Kringelein, but in the end it is Kringelein who holds all...
8) Emma
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Emma Thatcher becomes housekeeper to the Smith family after the mother dies giving birth to her fourth child. After the children are grown, Mr. Smith and Emma marry. Unfortunately, he dies suddenly. When it is discovered that he left everything to Emma in his will, three of the children bring a charge of murder against her.
10) The wild swans
Author
Language
English
Description
In this newly illustrated edition of the Andersen classic, eleven brothers who have been turned into swans by their evil stepmother are saved by their beautiful sister.
12) Thumbelina
Author
Language
English
Description
A tiny girl no bigger than a thumb is stolen by a great ugly toad and subsequently has many adventures and makes many animal friends, before finding the perfect mate in a warm and beautiful southern land.
13) The snow queen
Author
Language
English
Description
After the Snow Queen abducts her friend Kai, Gerda sets out on a perilous and magical journey to find him. Gerda faces many perils as she tries to save her friend, Kay, imprisoned in the Snow Queen's ice palace. In this Andersen tale, Gerda saves Kay after he is captured by the Snow Queen.
14) The swineherd
Author
Language
English
Description
A prince disguises himself as a swineherd and learns the true character of the princess he desires.
16) The nightingale
Author
Pub. Date
1988.
Language
English
Description
A long time ago, the Emperor of China lived in a magnificent palace made of fine china and surrounded by a splendid garden that was so big that even the gardener did not know it all. One day, the Emperor read a book that told him that most marvellous bird was the nightingale and so he asked his court to find him one because he wanted to hear it sing that very evening. But, where could one be found? Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) was a Danish...
18) The fir tree
Author
Pub. Date
[1970]
Language
English
Description
The life of a little fir tree who, when discarded, recalls with nostalgia its two glorious moments--being a beautiful fir and being a brightly-lit Christmas tree.
Pub. Date
2004, 1938.
Edition
Full screen edition.
Language
English
Description
Roger and his friend Charlie audition at a saloon in San Francisco's Barbary Coast. The number "Alexander's ragtime band" proves to be a sensation. Charlie soon falls in love with Stella who is the singer of the band. When Roger returns from World War I, he meets Stella and learns she and Charlie have married.
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