'The Wild Swans' is a literary fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen about a princess who rescues her eleven brothers from a spell cast by an evil queen. They're complex tales, but since Andersen himself was pretty complex, we like to think that art imitates life.

In them, you'll find beauty, tragedy, nature, religion, artfulness, deception, betrayal, love, death, judgment, penance, and-occasionally-a happy ending. Published in the United States by Golden Books, an imprint of Random House Childrens Books.

But no matter what language they're in, Andersen's tales have got something for everyone. Today, his stories can be read in over one hundred languages. From the Golden Book archives comes a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, gloriously illustrated by Gordon Laite in the late 1960s but never published until. He hungered for recognition at home (Denmark) and abroad-and he got it Eventually. In addition to his fairy tales, Andersen wrote poems, plays, novels, travel books, essays, and more. Hans Christian Andersen was a Danish author best known for writing children's stories including 'The Little Mermaid' and 'The Ugly Duckling.' But he didn't just write short stories, and his intended audience wasn't restricted to children. Ford 'The Wild Swans' in The Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen (1899), translated by Mary Howitt, illustrated by Helen Stratton 'The Wild Swans' in Fairy Tales and Stories (1900), translated by H. Reading Level: 3.8 Interest Level: Lower Grades Point Value: 0.5 'The Six Swans' in The Yellow Fairy Book (1894), edited by Andrew Lang, illustrated by H. When the king remarries, the new queen is. Juvenile Fiction | Fairy Tales & Folklore - General Hans Christian Andersen is the author of this story and he tells the story of a princess who saves her 11 brothers from an evil queens curse in the wild. Penelope Wilton reads an adaptation of 'The Wild Swans' by Hans Christian Andersen A king has eleven sons and one daughter, the Princess Eliza. Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platformīinding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Contributor(s): Andersen, Hans Christian (Author)

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