Acknowledgments XI
Denmark's Perfect Wizard XV
Ordering the Tales: From the Familiar to the Strange XXXVII
PART I: TALES FOR CHILDREN 1
The Emperor's New Clothes 3
The Snow Queen 17
The Princess and the Pea 70
The Nightingale 78
The Ugly Duckling 99
The Little Mermaid 119
The Tinderbox 156
The Wild Swans 168
Thumbelina 193
The Little Match Girl 214
The Steadfast Tin Soldier 223
Ole Shut-Eye 234
PART II: TALES FOR ADZLTS 249
The Red Shoes 251
The Shadow 263
The Psyche 280
The Most Astonishing Thing 298
The Story of a Mother 306
The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf 315
The Phoenix 330
The Goblin and the Grocer 334
Auntie Toothache 341
The Flying Trunk 356
Heartache 366
The Bell 370
PART III: BIOGRAPHIES 377
A Fairy - Tale Life? Hans Christian Andersen 379
Andersen's Illustrators 399
PART IV: BIOGRAPHY 433
Works by Hans Christian Andersen 435
Secondary Literature 438