Wonder
Andersen’s Fairy Tales
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain textOriginal fairy tales, invented rather than collected, many of them considerably sadder than the folk tradition they were written alongside. Andersen understood that the best children’s stories do not flinch from grief, only from cruelty for its own sake. The mermaid does not get the ending the songs about her usually promise.
The librarian
- Reading time
- About 3 hr 45 min
- Where to find it
- The English Reading Room
- Edition
- Project Gutenberg, eBook #1597. In the public domain in the United States.