Fairy Tales

Penguin Classics/ Deluxe Edition. 8vo. Pp. lvi, 437, [1]. Illustrated wraps with French-fold flaps; untrimmed fore-edges. Author's b/w paper cut-out illustrations. Cover art by Anders Brekhus Nilsen. Edited and Introduced by Jackie Wullschlager. This translation by Tiina Nunnally first published by Penguin Books UK, 2004.

A new selection of 30 tales to mark the bicentenary of Andersen's birth in 2005. Includes: "The Emperor's New Clothes", "The Little Mermaid", "'The Ugly Duckling", "The Princess and the Pea", "The Little Match Girl", "The Ice Maiden" and "The Wood Nymph". "Tiina Nunnally's new versions of the tales amount to a recuperation of Andersen in all his strangeness, darkness and comic subversiveness." –John Banville