"The winter grew cold – so bitterly cold that the duckling had to swim to and fro in the water to keep it from freezin…"

"In the middle of the floor lay a dead swallow, with his lovely wings folded at his sides and his head tucked under hi…"

"At rejse er at leve."

"I think many would enjoy and savor the fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen much better as adults. I recommend the …"

"His own image; no longer a dark, gray bird, ugly and disagreeable to look at, but a graceful and beautiful swan. To b…"

"They could see she was a real Princess and no question about it, now that she had felt one pea all the way through tw…"

"I have gone through the most terrible affair that could possibly happen; only imagine, my shadow has gone mad; I supp…"

""But he has nothing on at all," said a little child at last. "Good heavens! listen to the voice of an innocent child,…"

"Every time a good child dies, an angel of God comes down to earth. He takes the child in his arms, spreads out his gr…"

"We sometimes live to three hundred years, but when we cease to exist here we only become the foam on the surface of t…"