Such an original species of writing as that in which Andersen excelled does not burst full-blown upon the world. It is the result of many experiments, many accidents, even, perhaps, of some blunderings.Andersen did not set out deliberately to be a teller of fairy stories, much less did he expect or desire to be mainly known as the composer of these srnaating, as he called them, of these trifles or bagatelles. He set out in life intending to be a serious poet, a writer of five-act dramas, a novelist of passion and society.
目录
The Wild Swans What the Old Man Does Is Always Right The Old House Thumbeline The Storm Shifts the Signboards The Shepherdess and the Chimney-sweep Daddy Dustman (Ole Luktiie) Little Claus and Big Claus The Shirt Collar The Little Mermaid It's Quite True！ The Little Match Girl Twelve by the Mail The Garden of Paradise The Wind Tells About Valdemar Daa and His Daughters The Gallant Tin Soldier The Story of a Mother The Emperor's New Clothes The Snow Man "Everything in Its Proper Place" The Happy Family The Shadow The Princess on the Pea The Nightingale The Jumpers The Travelling Companion The Money-pig The Galoshes of Fortune Aunty Toothache The Tinder Box Little Ida's Flowers Elder-Tree Mother The Brownie at the Butterman's The Snow Queen The Swineherd The Sweethearts The Pine-tree "The Will-o'-the-wisps Are in Town," Said the Woman from the Marsh The Ugly Duckling The Flying Trtmk The Storks Silly Hans
