Andersen Hans: 724 books

Imagine a tiny little girl, no bigger than the size of a thumb! Now imagine how strange and scary the world must seem to her. Thumbelina is snatched from her home by a toad, who wished to marry her off to his son. But this is not the end of her misfortune; upon her adventures she meets beetles, a...

Far out in the ocean the water is as blue as the petals of the loveliest cornflower, and as clear as the purest glass. But it is very deep too. It goes down deeper than any anchor rope will go, and many, many steeples would have to be stacked one on top of another to reach from the bottom to the surface...

When Kai is cursed by a magic mirror, he can no longer perceive goodness in anything - not his best friend Gerda, nor the roses in the garden. One wintery evening, he is kidnapped by the wicked Snow Queen and swept away to live for ever in her kingdom of ice. Friendless and shoe-less, Gerda...

“So at last he ran away, frightening the little birds in the hedge as he flew over the palings. “They are afraid of me because I am ugly,” he said. So he closed his eyes, and flew still farther, until he came out on a large moor, inhabited by wild ducks. Here he remained the whole night, feeling...

The Emperor learns about the beautiful nightingale living in his empire. Only a kitchen maid knows of its whereabouts. She leads the court to the forest where the nightingale lives. The nightingale agrees to appear at court, where it remains as the Emperor's favorite. Only, the Emperor is given a...

Fairy Tales illustrated by Spanish painter O. Colavidas : - The Nightingale - The Butterfly - The Ugly Ducking - The Snail and the rose tree - The Brave Tin Soldier - The Princess and the pea - The Emperors new suit - The little Mermaid - What the moon saw

Heiter, ironisch, melancholisch, witzig, immer niveauvoll: eine Sammlung von Klassikern als Urlaubslektüre für alle, die intelligente Unterhaltung schätzen. Fontane, Shakespeare, Storm und andere. Jetzt zugreifen - und ab in den Leseurlaub.

Es duftet nach Tannen, Zimt und Glühwein - die Vorfreude auf das Weihnachtsfest steigt in uns auf. Wir schmücken die Stube, backen Plätzchen, besorgen Geschenke, hören stimmungsvolle Musik und halten stille Einkehr. Weihnachtsgeschichten lenken unseren Blick auf das Wesentliche dieser Zeit und...

The Library of Alexandria is an independent small business publishing house. We specialize in bringing back to live rare, historical and ancient Books. This includes manuscripts such as: classical fiction, philosophy, science, Religion, folklore, mythology, history, literature, politics and sacred texts,...

In The Red Shoes, a peasant girl named Karen is adopted by a rich old lady and grows up vain and spoiled. She is so enamored of a new pair of red shoes that she wears them to church in spite of a warning to only wear black shoes there. She soon learns that ignoring that warning was a bad idea: a mysterious...

In “The Old House,” a boy is invited to meet the old man across the street and offers him a gift of a toy soldier. The toy soldier, unhappy with his new surroundings, flings himself through a hole in the floor and disappears. After the old man dies, the old house is torn down, and a new one is built, but the toy soldier remains to be rediscovered.