COPENHAGEN, Denmark — For years, the somber fairy tale about a lonely candle who wanted to be lit dwelt in oblivion at the bottom of a box in Denmark's National Archives. Its recent discovery has sent ...

A historian in Denmark may have discovered Hans Christian Andersen’s first fairy tale ever. The story, called “The Tallow Candle,” was discovered at the bottom of an old box in Denmark’s national ...

The H.C. Andersen House is open to the public on a limited basis in the writer’s hometown of Odense, Denmark. The H.C. Andersen House in Odense, Denmark. Photo: Laerke Beck Johansen. Artnet News ...

Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales, edited and illus. by Lisbeth Zwerger, trans. by Anthea Bell, originally published in 1991, includes three additional stories, and its new design matches ...

Whether it’s rolling dice to cast a Shakespeare play on the day of the performance or presenting a new work riffing on a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, messing with the classics is an important ...

Varmer, an award-winning Danish children's book writer, collaborates with Brøgger on this account of Andersen's anything-but-fairy-tale life. Exquisitely sensitive, by turns terrified and arrogant, ...

There once lived a tiny elf, so small that human eyes could not see him, in the middle of a garden in the petals of a rose bush. One night, the sprite was out exploring too late, and by the time he ...

There was once a prince who wanted a princess, and only a real princess would please him. He traveled the world to find one, but was unable to, and came back home discouraged. One evening there was a ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Remember the times when you would lay in bed and your mother would tell you the stories of a ...