Hans Christian Andersen: Best-Loved Fairy Tales collects one hundred of Andersen's incomparable fairy tales and stories, among them 'Thumbelina,' 'The Little Match Girl,' 'The Princess and the Pea,' 'The Red Shoes,' 'The Wild Swans,' and his fantasy masterpiece 'The Snow-Queen.' This volume is beautifully illustrated with more than one hundred drawings by Dugald Stewart Walker and Hans Tegner, two of Andersen's best-known illustrators.

Translated from the Danish.

The emperor's new clothes --The rose-elf -- The storks -- The daisy -- The buckwheat -- The nightingale -- The eflin hill -- The saucy boy -- The steadfast tin soldier -- The flax -- The swineherd -- Holdger Danske -- The flying trunk -- The fir-tree -- The darning needle -- Big Claus and Little Claus -- The last dream of the old oak -- The little mermaid -- The old street lamp -- The little elder-tree mother -- The neighboring families -- The shepherdess and the sweep -- The wicked prince -- The galoshes of fortune -- The bell -- Thumbelina -- Little Tuk -- A cheerful temper -- The little match girl -- The story of the year -- "There is no doubt about it" -- Ole Luk-Oie -- Soup from a sausage-peg -- The beetle -- The garden of paradise -- A story -- The dumb ook -- The ugly duckling -- Under the willow-tree -- Ib and Christine -- Twelve by the mail -- The metal pig -- The bond of friendship -- The red shoes -- A rose from Homer's grave -- The Jewish girl -- The lovers -- A picture from the Rampart -- A leaf from Heaven -- The princess and the pea -- The old church bell -- The silver shilling -- The girl who trod on a loaf -- Two brothers -- The old tombstone -- The snowman -- The wild swans -- The snail and the rose-tree -- She was good for nothing -- The traveling companion -- The last pearl -- In the duck yard -- The shadow -- The bottle-neck -- Children's prattle -- The old house -- The farm-yard cock and the weather-cock -- Five out of one pod -- The snow-queen -- The pend and the inkstand -- The puppet showman -- The story of a mother -- The child in the grave -- The shirt-collar -- The butterfly -- The goblin and the huckster -- The marsh king's daughter -- The loveliest rose in the world -- The racers -- The happy family -- Something -- At the uttermost parts of the sea -- The tinder-box -- There is a difference -- The angel -- "What the moon saw" -- The pigs -- "Delaying is not forgetting" -- Little Ida's flowers -- The ice maiden -- The old bachelor's nightcap -- "Everything in the right place" -- Anne Lisbeth -- "Beautiful!" -- The wind's tale -- A story from the sand-hills -- The money-pig -- The philosopher's stone -- What the old man does is always right -- Grandmother.