Andersen - Libros y biografía

A bell could be heard just as well in the town as in the country, but no one knew exactly where the sound was coming from. The bell seemed to ring in the forest and its music was so particular that people...

In Denmark, the railway is a string of pearls. In Europe, the pearls of this necklace are Paris, London, Vienna and Naples. Here, we see six pearls of the Danish railway and quickly find that it is easier...

The star that is brightest this morning knows many things: she has watched over the earth for centuries and knows many things that we men have long forgotten. Today, she tells us the story of the Roman...

At a place where there was once a mighty knight's castle, today stands a small house, built for chickens and ducks. Poultry Meg was the only person who lived there, and only the old crow can tell us where...

A peasant and his wife owned a horse that grazed in a ditch close to their house. But they thought that it would be better for them to sell it or exchange it for something more useful. The woman sent...

A family of toads lived in a very deep well: it was so deep that, from the top, you could not even see the surface of the water. One of the young toads dreamed of knowing what there was outside of the...

You should have known our Aunt – what a funny person she was! She could easily have acted in any play, and with good reason: she lived only for the theatre! -

The general's family lived on the first floor of the house. The concierge and his wife lived in the cellar. They had a son, Georg, who was allowed to play with Emily, the general's daughter. The general's...

There was once a poor little girl called Karen. In summer, she walked barefoot and in winter, she wore clogs that hurt her feet. She had no choice, it was all she had. Dame Shoemaker wanted to help her...

A woman wanted to have a child, but not knowing how to go about it, asked a witch for help. The witch gave her a barley seed and told her to plant it. No sooner had she done so than a large tulip grew....

Once upon a time there was a man who knew how to tell stories better than anyone – until the day he knew no more. Even though he spent the whole day looking for stories, he still had no story to tell...

My friend Ole was an intelligent curious man with a great deal of knowledge. He had never obtained what he wanted from Men so he retired and lived as a hermit, alone at the top of a church tower. I will...

He had been ill a long time and God came for him – the parents and sisters of the little four-year-old boy who had died were inconsolable. No chagrin was greater than that of the boy's mother, yet she...

When an old man's dog died, his grandchildren buried the poor pet and set up a fine gravestone. It seemed respectful and nice of them. Until they started asking for admission fees from the other neighborhood...

The windmill on the top of the hill swelled with pride whenever someone looked up at him. And even though he pretended not to be, he was very proud of himself as well!-

Once upon a time, a young man dreamed of becoming a writer and making a living from his pen. But there was a problem. The writers of the previous centuries had already exhausted all the subjects and he...

The "maidens" are tools used by pavers to push down paving stones. One day, it was decided that they would be called "hand rammers" and not "maidens", but the tools themselves did not necessarily agree...

A long time ago, in Copenhagen, there lived an old bachelor who lived alone in a small shack and always slept with a nightcap that he pulled well down over his face. People laughed at his strange attire....

Uma margarida crescia em paz próxima a uma estrada rural, esquecida por todos, mas feliz. Ela gostava de sentir o sol em suas pétalas e de ouvir os pássaros cantar. Nada parecia incomodar sua felicidade,...

"Era uma vez um filho de um rei que tinha muitos livros. ninguém tinha mais nem mais bonitos: ele aprendia com tudo o que havia acontecido no mundo e via sua representação em imagens incríveis. Ele poderia...

No fundo do oceano, viviam o rei do mar, sua mãe e suas seis filhas. Eles viviam em um lindo castelo, cercado por um grande jardim, do qual cada filha tomava conta de uma parte. A pequena sereia, a princesa...

Um belo dia, em um dia não previsto pelos cálculos dos astrônomos, um cometa apareceu no céu, atraindo todos os olhares em sua direção. E quando, muitos anos depois, ele apareceu novamente, ele fez um...

Em um dia ensolarado, quando um peixinho estava nadando alegremente com seus 18 mil irmãos e irmãs, a água foi escurecida por uma enorme enguia que veio de cima e estava indo mais a fundo no mar. Ela...

A camareira tinha uma chave especial: se você soubesse como manuseá-la, ela responderia sinceramente a qualquer pergunta que fosse feita! Pelo menos, era isso que a camareira achava... Mas será que a...

A vela de castiçal, feita de sebo, não é tão refinada quanto a vela, feita de cera. Não há dúvidas de que a vela terá a honra de iluminar o salão de baile esta noite. Quando a vela de castiçal é oferecida...

Em um lugar onde antes havia o castelo de um poderoso cavaleiro, hoje fica uma pequena casa, construída para galinhas e patos. A margarida das galinhas era a única pessoa que vivia lá e somente o corvo...

No dia em que o cavalo do imperador recebeu suas ferraduras de ouro como recompensa por suas ações heroicas, o besouro que compartilhava seu estábulo ficou com muita inveja. O ferreiro se recusou a fazer...

Os pais da Anna foram ao teatro com seus irmãos. Ela foi a única que ficou em casa com seu padrasto, mas ela não ficará entediada. Eles mesmos farão uma peça que talvez seja até melhor do que a peça que...

Era uma vez uma peça honesta de prata que passava de mão em mão e felizmente descobriu seu país. Um dia, seu atual proprietário viajou para o exterior, pegando a peça de prata por acidente — ele só pretendia...

O moinho de vento no topo da colina se inflava de orgulho toda vez que alguém olhava para ele. E mesmo que ele fingisse não estar, também estava muito orgulhoso de si mesmo!-