Hans Christian Andersen

Andersen's Fairy Tales illustrated by Anja Uhren
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although a prolific writer of plays, travelogues, novels, and poems, he is best remembered for his fairy tales; called eventyr in Danish, they express themes that transcend age and nationality (wiki)

• The Tin Soldiers of Andersen are in Clarendon
• El Patito Feo

(German and Nordic Literature)