Edited by Maria Tatar.
The beloved fairy tales of Andersen are collected and annotated by folk scholar Tatar in this lavish volume. Popular stories like "The Emperor's New Clothes" and "The Little Mermaid" are featured among more obscure tales like "The Shadow" and "Story of a Mother" while illustrations by Arthur Rackham, Edmund Dulac, Kay Nielsen and Harry Clarke burst forth with colorful, imaginative imagery. Annotated footnotes place these stories in their rich cultural context in this beautiful book.