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- The Fairy Tale of My Life
Excerpts of the autobiography "The Fairy Tale of My Life" (da. 1855).

- The
The Hans Christian Andersen database contains all known letters to, from and about Hans Christian Andersen

- Mulatten
Hans Christian Andersen's play Mulatten ("The Mulatto", 1840) in Danish, scanned from the original by Universitätsbibliothek Kiel.
- SurLaLune fairy tale pages
A portal to the realm of fairy tale and folklore studies featuring 27 annotated fairy tales, including their histories, similar tales across cultures, over 1,000 illustrations, and a discussion board.
- Manuscripts, paper cuts, picture books, portraits and music
Hans Christian Andersen at The Royal Library of Copenhagen

- Manuscripts for the autobiographies
Manuscripts for Andersen's three autobiographies. The site is in Danish.

- Hans Christian Andersen in Arabic
Five H.C. Andersen fairy tales translated into Arabic, lists of other translations, and a comprehensive introduction in both Danish and Arabic by Stig T. Rasmussen.

- Andersen Stories
Fortællinger, Erzählungen, stories, cuentos, contes, sprookjes, fiabe. Texts, lists and audio books.

- Philatelic Celebration of the International Hans Christian Andersen Year 2005
Hans Christian Andersen on stamps, among which numerous Disney stamps, postmarks, slogan cancels, pharmacy envelopesa and paper money.
- Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen
This site has collected or linked to several hundreds of fairy tales, stories and other works. Many links are with the Pedersen-Frölich illustrationes. The grouping into fairy tales makes the site very easy to use. Here you can also find 107 fairy tales in Esperanto, and the majority of the fairy tales in English, but also fairy tales in many other languages. All fairy tales are linked to the Danish Royal Library's site with corresponding Danish editions. Translations into esperanto was made by L. L. Zamenhof, into Engelsk primarily by H.P. Paull.

- Hans Christian Andersen – Verteller voor de eeuwigheid
Fairy tales, life and work – and stamps! Themapagina over Hans Christiaan Andersen, met zijn verhalen, sprookjes en vertellingen. Tevens extra achtergrondinformatie en een biografie.
- Illustreret Tidende
Periodical 1859-1924. Contains several first prints of Andersen writings and reviews of his works.
- Andersen's Picture Books - Charlotte Melchior and Astrid Stampe
H. C. Andersen made very fine picture books and gave away. The precious gifts were made with cut and glued in pictures as well as poems from the poet's own hand. One was given to Charlotte Melchior, born 4.3.1871, and another, made in cooperation with Andersen's friend Adolph Drewsen, to Astrid Stampe

- Anderseniana 2001, 2002 and 2003
Anderseniana, a Danish periodical about Hans Christian Andersen, 2001 and 2002. With English summaries of the articles.

- Hans Christian Andersen manuscripts
Twenty fairy-tale manuscripts from Odense City's Museums' archives. The museum has also published the manuscript for Mit Livs Eventyr (The Fairy Tale of my Life)

- Hans Christian Andersen Presentation copies
Hans Christian Andersen's handwritten inscriptions.

- Hans Christian Andersens Fairytales in 123 languages
Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales are found in 145 written languages (in 2003)! At the website of the Hans Christian Andersen Museum you can see samples of tales in 123 of these languages.

- The Hans Christian Andersen Museum
Hans Christian Andersen's House/The Hans Christian Andersen Museum; with a considerable collection online, including Hans Christian Andersen's study in Nyhavn 18 and The poet's screen collages.

- Hans Christian Andersen Adventures with the post
Post & Tele Museum Denmark (www.ptt-museum.dk) has made this website, that tells about Andersen's traveling life and the post services of the past in images, sound, tales and nonfiction.

- The Ugly Duckling multimedia in 5 nordic languages
This Finnish pages has Svend Otto S illustrations of The Ugly Duckling accompanied by the read-aloud story. Den stygge andungen Den fula ankungen Ruma ankanpoikanen Ljóti andarunginn

- Commentary for the fairy tales
Fairy tales and stories commented by Erik Dal, Erling Nielsen and Flemming Hovmann in H.C. Andersens eventyr, vol. 7, Det Danske Sprog- og Litteraturselskab 1990.
- Arkiv for Dansk Litteratur (Danish literary classics)
Arkiv for Dansk Litteratur (Archive for Danish Literature) has a comprehensive collection of texts, biographies and bibliographies of Danish writers from the Medieval until the early 20th century.

- Bemærkninger, textkritik, modtagelse
Andersen's own remarks for the fairy tales, Erik Dal about the text and Erling Nielsen on the reviews at Andersen's time, in H.C. Andersens eventyr, bd. 6, Det Danske Sprog- og Litteraturselskab 1990.

- Contemporary Reviews of Hans Christian Andersen
A selection of reviews of Hans Christian andersen at his own time, with bibliographic notes and an introduction to other kinds of literary criticism of Andersen (among others Søren Kierkegaard and Georg Brandes).

- Hans Christian Andersen - Manuscripts for poems
Manuscripts from the collections of The Royal Library. The selected 58 poems cover the oeuvre's span of years.

- Ragnar Arntzen on H.C. Andersen
Pedagogic site about HCA. New translations, literary history, biography, interactive education and more. For teachers, students and pupils.
- Romantikken og H.C. Andersen
Tales, paintings and literary periods - a course in Danish. Made February 2002 by Tommy Thambour and Ole Pedersen.
- Silkeborg Bibliotek
This site, Litteratursiden.dk shows a well introduced entry for the novels.
- The Andersen Centre's index of works
The Centre's index of Hans Christian Andersen's works with links to the full text where we know about it.

- Fairytales in many languages
Further than the flagged-in languages there are fairytales in Galician, Brasilian Portuguese and Hungarian.

- Project Gutenberg: Hans Christian Andersen
E-texts: fairy tales, O.T., Pictures of Sweden, The True Story of my Life (Das Märchen meines Lebens ohne Dichtung).

- Animals appearing in the fairy tales
A registry of animals appearing in the fairy tales, complete with search engine
- Silkeborg Library, Ib and Little Christine
Silkeborg Library's site about Andersen and Silkeborg - in his fairy tale Ib and Little Christine
- HCA at Denmarks Radio
Danmarks Radio's (Radio of Denmark) website on Hans Christian Andersen - part of the 2005 celebration of HCA. Won the Prix Italia for Best Website 2005.

- The Rags - HCA and Esperanto
Illustrated fairy tales, articles, links.

- Author profile on Susning.nu
A very brief biography and a fine starting page for the Swedish pages on Hans Christian Andersen
- Fairytales in ukrainian


- H.C. Andersen and Silkeborg
Hans Christian Andersens relations to Silkeborg thoroughly described with fairy tales, diaries, letters and more.
- Danish State Archives - HCA Documents
Pages concerning: Birth and christening, confirmation, The estate of the deceased father and of Andersen, School and marks, Letters and poems, Travel-memories, Death and burial
- Frederiksberg Bibliotek
Seven original HCA fairytale manuscripts from the collections of Frederiksberg Bibliotek (the library of Frederiksberg, Denmark).
- Universo das Fábulas
A line of fairy tales in Portuguese
- H.C. Andersen. A Biography based on Letters
Kirsten Dreyer's comprehensive biography concerning letters to and from Hans Christian Andersen.

- Index général - HCA in French
Authors index in Bibliothèque de Littérature Spiritualiste Et Mystique, in which Andersen is represented with links to eight tales and Picturebook Without Pictures: 'Livre d'images'.
- Online texts and register of works
Works and index of works. The works include Jean Hersholt's The Complete Andersen and the poems The Twelve Months of the Year. Drawn by Ink and Pen

- Andersen fairytales in French
A number of Andersen's fairy tales translated into French
- Andersen Märchen
Project Gutenberg here presents 159 of the most known fairy tales in German - translated by L. Tronier Funder.
- HCA's almanacs 1833-1873
The almanacs of Hans Christian Andersen.

- The Tinder Box and Other Stories, by Hans Andersen. Illustrated by Helen Stratton.
The Tinder Box and Other Stories, by Hans Andersen. Illustrated by Helen Stratton.
- The True Story of My Life: A Sketch
The True Story of my Life translated by Mary Howitt
- HCA's fairy tale manuscripts
88 of The Royal Library's (Copenhagen) manuscripts for 61 of Hans Christian Andersen's tales. With cronologic and alphabetic survey. Essay by Jesper Gehlert Nielsen and Klaus P. Mortensen.

- The diaries of Hans Christian Andersen
The diaries of Hans Christian Andersen online. With a search engine, an essay by Torben Brostrøm, registers and indexes of contents.

- Andersen Lied-texts
A large collection of Andersen-poetry used as lyrics and Andersen works for which music has been composed.

- Danish literary classics
This site contains all Andersen's fairy tales and part of his novels - and furhtermore you can see some of his original manuscripts in scanned version.

- Excerpts of Andersen's unfinished early autobiography from 1832


- Fabeloj de Andersen
47 fairy tales in Esperanto, translated by L. L. Zamenhof.
- Fabeloj de H.C. Andersen
25 fairy tales in Esperanto, translated by L.L. Zamenhof.
- Fairy Tales and Stories
Here Zwi Har'El has listed 128 of Andersen's fairy tales in an English translation by H. P. Paull. The 1st-edition-illustrations by Vilhelm Pedersen and Lorenz Frölich are in some of these 128 fairy tales, all tales with illustrations are marked with a dark ball. Furthermore, the site includes a complete survey of the fairy tales and part of his stories and novels. In additioin, Har'El has made a cross-reference list between the different English fairy tale titles with links to the corresponding fairy tales in the collection of the Danish Royal Library. Finally the site has an "Index Translationum" where you can find titles of fairy tale editions in a number of different languages.
- From the Papers of One Still Living
The debut of Søren Kierkegaard, the review of Hans Christian Andersen's novel Only a Fiddler.
- Hans Christian Andersen
Hans Christian Andersen. Biografía, cuentos y enlaces (biography, fairy tales and links) in Spanish. All Andersen tales that have been translated into Spanish should be here at Hadaluna Lee (www.hadaluna.com).
- Hans Christian Andersen's dreams
Dreams in the diaries of Hans Christian Andersen
- Les habits neufs de l'empereur
The Emperor's New Clothes in French translation by Emmanuel Scavée.
- Old Danish Songs
Jørgen Ebert has created a site with 13 old Danish Songs with text written by Hans Christian Andersen.
- Picture-Book for Hans Christian Ørsted
The picture-book for Hans Christian Ørsted with Andersen's writings transscripted (only in the Danish version). Introduction by Erik Dal: "Hans Christian Andersen's picture-books and paper-cuts."

- Poems
On the link www.kalliope.org you can find a good number of Andersen's poems (and poems by other authors of several nationalities). It is possible to sort the poems by title line or by opening line - and you can search in the poems.

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