Hans Christian Andersen

In "The Ice-Maiden", written towards the end of his career, Hans Christian Andersen tells the tale of Rudy, a boy who lost both his parents and goes to live with his uncle. The reader is first introduced to Rudy as he sells toy houses made by his grandfather. Rudy grows up to become a skilled mountain climber and huntsman. He has fallen in love with the miller's daughter, Babette, however the miller does not approve of the union and gives Rudy the impossible task of climbing to the top of a dangerous mountain and bringing back a live baby eaglet. While Babette was off visiting her godmother, she caught the attention of her cousin and flirted with him, which reveals in Rudy a growing jealousy. When Rudy finds the cousin climbing up a tree into Babette's window, Babette is enraged that Rudy is yelling at her cousin and tells him to leave. On his way home, Rudy comes across a beautiful maiden who has appeared in his life before.

At the Hans Christian Andersen Museum in Odense the writer's trunk is on display. It is worn and dusty, for Andersen loved to travel and was often off on some journey. Everywhere he came, he stud-ied people and collected impressions that he later transformed into characters and places in his immor-tal fairy-tales. And, unlike the trunk, his fairy-tales never wear out, but remain as relevant and gripping today as they were 150 years ago. In this book we have collected 15 of Andersen's short tales, some of which are extremely well-known, others less so. What the tales all share is that apart from telling a particular story they also describe people's thoughts, actions and dreams. Each of the fairy-tales is provided with a commentary from a researcher at the Hans Christian Andersen Centre, University of Southern Denmark, as well as a brand-new illustration.

V etoj knige sobrany skazki samykh izvestnykh zarubezhnykh pisatelej: Sharlja Perro, Khansa Kristiana Andersena i bratev Grimm. Eto ljubimaja mnogimi pokolenijami detej klassika v obraztsovykh perevodakh Anny Ganzen, Tamary Gabbe, Very Valdman i drugikh masterov. A velikolepnye illjustratsii Maksima Mitrofanova, v sochetanii s chudesnymi ramkami Olgi Ionajtis, i zamechatelnoe khudozhestvennoe oformlenie sdelajut etot sbornik ukrasheniem detskoj biblioteki. Kniga vyshla v serii "Skazki, skazki, skazki...". Dlja detej 6-8 let. Perevodchik: Gabbe T., Stepanova O., Valdman V., Kon L., Ganzen Anna VasilevnaRedaktor: Akulova ArinaKhudozhnik: Mitrofanov Maksim Sergeevich, Ionajtis Olga Romualdovna