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Best Fairy Tales

Hardback

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06 October 2016
464 pages
9781509826650
Imprint: Macmillan Collector's Library

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Hans Christian Andersen's fairytales . . . have captivated generations with their blend of plain language, unbridled imagination and haunting strangeness
Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales are not fairy tales at all; they're too bittersweet, too knowledgeable about the way of the world for that. What they've done is provide us with many of the archetypes that sustain our Western collective unconscious