Such an original species of writing as that in which Andersen excelled does not burst full-blown upon the world. It is the result of many experiments, many accidents, even, perhaps, of some blunderings.Andersen did not set out deliberately to be a teller of fairy stories, much less did he expect or desire to be mainly known as the composer of these srnaating, as he called them, of these trifles or bagatelles. He set out in life intending to be a serious poet, a writer of five-act dramas, a novelist of passion and society.

The Wild Swans

What the Old Man Does Is Always Right

The Old House

Thumbeline

The Storm Shifts the Signboards

The Shepherdess and the Chimney-sweep

Daddy Dustman (Ole Luktiie)

Little Claus and Big Claus

The Shirt Collar

The Little Mermaid

It's Quite True！

The Little Match Girl

Twelve by the Mail

The Garden of Paradise

The Wind Tells About Valdemar Daa and His Daughters

The Gallant Tin Soldier

The Story of a Mother

The Emperor's New Clothes

The Snow Man

"Everything in Its Proper Place"

The Happy Family

The Shadow

The Princess on the Pea

The Nightingale

The Jumpers

The Travelling Companion

The Money-pig

The Galoshes of Fortune

Aunty Toothache

The Tinder Box

Little Ida's Flowers

Elder-Tree Mother

The Brownie at the Butterman's

The Snow Queen

The Swineherd

The Sweethearts

The Pine-tree

"The Will-o'-the-wisps Are in Town," Said the Woman from the Marsh

The Ugly Duckling

The Flying Trtmk

The Storks

Silly Hans