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    The Ice-Maiden: and Other Tales
    The Ice-Maiden: and Other Tales
    The Ice-Maiden: and Other Tales
    Audiobook2 hours

    The Ice-Maiden: and Other Tales

    Written by Hans Christian Andersen

    Narrated by LibriVox Community

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    About this audiobook

    Short-stories/fairy tales by H. C. Anderson, includes The Ice-maiden -- The Butterfly -- The Psyche -- The Snail and the Rose-tree

    The Ice-Maiden: Written toward the end of Hans Christian Andersen's career, "The Ice-Maiden" is the story of Rudy, a boy who's mother died in the ice of the mountains while he survives, saved by the kiss of the Ice-Maiden. The Ice-Maiden, jealous that the boy she claimed has escaped her embrace, pursues him through the rest of his life.

    The Butterfly: A butterfly searches for the perfect flower to be his bride.

    The Psyche: An artist creates a sculpture of a beautiful woman, to whom he confesses his love and is scorned.

    The Snail and the Rose-Tree: A Snail and a Rose-Tree have a discussion about the meaning of their lives, and play them out.(Summary by ElleyKat)
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLibriVox
    Release dateAug 25, 2014
    The Ice-Maiden: and Other Tales
    Author

    Hans Christian Andersen

    Hans Christian Andersen was born in Odense, Denmark, in 1805. He endured a lonely, impoverished childhood consoled by little more than his own imagination. He escaped to a theatre life in Copenhagen aged 14 where the support of a powerful patron enabled him to complete his scant education, and to write. His poetry, novels and travel books became hugely popular. But it was his Fairy Tales, the first children's stories of their kind, published in instalments from 1835 until the time of his death in 1875, that have immortalised him. Translated into more than 100 languages and adapted to every kind of media, they have made Andersen the most important children's writer in history.

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