Hans Christian Andersen  

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Hans Christian Andersen (2 April 1805 – 4 August 1875) was a Danish author best remembered for his fairy tales.

Andersen's fairy tales, consisting of 156 stories across nine volumes have become culturally embedded in the West's collective consciousness, readily accessible to children, but presenting lessons of virtue and resilience in the face of adversity for mature readers as well. His most famous fairy tales include "The Emperor's New Clothes," "The Little Mermaid," "The Nightingale," "The Steadfast Tin Soldier", "The Red Shoes", "The Princess and the Pea," "The Snow Queen," "The Ugly Duckling," "The Little Match Girl," and "Thumbelina."

Works

Andersen's fairy tales include:

• "The Angel" (1843)
• "The Bell" (1845)
• "Blockhead Hans" (1855)
• "The Elf Mound" (1845)
• "The Emperor's New Clothes" (1837)
• "The Fir-Tree" (1844)
• "The Flying Trunk" (1839)
• "The Galoshes of Fortune" (1838)
• "The Garden of Paradise" (1839)
• "The Goblin and the Grocer" (1852)
• "Golden Treasure" (1865)
• "The Happy Family" (1847)
• "The Ice-Maiden" (1861)
• "It's Quite True" (1852)
• "The Jumpers" (1845)
• "Little Claus and Big Claus" (1835)
• "Little Ida's Flowers" (1835)
• "The Little Match Girl" (1845)
• "The Little Mermaid" (1837)
• "Little Tuk" (1847)
• "The Most Incredible Thing" (1870)
• "The Naughty Boy" (1835)
• "The Nightingale" (1843)
• "The Old House" (1847)
• "Ole Lukoie" (1841)
• "The Philosopher's Stone" (1858)
• "The Princess and the Pea" (1835)
• "The Red Shoes" (1845)
• "The Rose Elf" (1839)
• "The Shadow" (1847)
• "The Shepherdess and the Chimney Sweep" (1845)
• "The Snow Queen" (1844)
• "The Snowman" (1861)
• "The Steadfast Tin Soldier" (1838)
• "The Storks" (1839)
• "The Story of a Mother" (1847)
• "The Sweethearts; or, The Top and the Ball" (1843)
• "The Swineherd" (1841)
• "The Tallow Candle" (1820s)
• "The Teapot" (1863)
• "Thumbelina" (1835)
• "The Tinderbox" (1835)
• "The Traveling Companion" (1835)
• "The Ugly Duckling" (1843)
• "What the Old Man Does is Always Right" (1861)
• "The Wild Swans" (1838)

See also

• Kjøbenhavnsposten, a Danish newspaper in which Andersen published one of his first poems
• Pleated Christmas hearts, invented by Andersen
• Vilhelm Pedersen, the first illustrator of Andersen's fairy tales
• Collastoma anderseni sp. nov. (Rhabdocoela: Umagillidae: Collastominae), an endosymbiont from the intestine of the sipunculan Themiste lageniformis, for a species named after Andersen.