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Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen

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Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales

by Hans Christian Andersen

Length 3 hours 4 minutes

Language English

Narrators Alan Cumming, Andrew Sachs, Juliet Stevenson & Nigel Davenport

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Download eight timeless audio tales from a magical storyteller

This enchanting collection, retold by writer and critic Naomi Lewis, contains eight of Hans Christian Andersen's magnificent fairy tales. It includes Thumbelina, a little girl no more than a thumb-joint high, The Emperor's New Clothes, the tale of a man who cares only for his appearance and The Little Mermaid, who longs to one day marry a human prince.

Unabridged and read by Juliet Stevenson, Andrew Sachs, Alan Cumming, and Nigel Davenport.

Children's

Hans Christian Andersen was born in Odense, Denmark, in 1805. At the age of 14 he went to Copenhagen to become an actor. He failed and instead went back to school, where he was very unhappy. He published his first book, an account of a walking trip, in 1829. From then on he wrote many books, finding his true voice in his original fairy stories, which often had their basis in his life. He died in 1875.