Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen (Annotated)

Fairy Tales Told for Kids. First Collection. (Danish: Eventyr, fortalt for Born. Forste Samling.) is a set of 9 fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen. The tales had been published in a number of 3 installments by C. A. Reitzel in Copenhagen, Denmark between May April and 1835 1837, as well as represent Andersen's very first venture into the fairy tale genre.

Here is the complete text of the novel with the followings annotations:

*Biographical Information:

Early work:

Hans Christian Andersen came into this world in Odense, Denmark on two April 1805. He'd a stepsister called Karen. the father of his, also named Hans, deemed himself associated with nobility (the paternal grandmother of his had told his father that the family of theirs had belonged to a greater interpersonal class,but investigations have disproved these stories). 

Although it's been challenged, a chronic speculation implies that Andersen was an illegitimate son of King Christian VIII. Danish historian Jens Jorgensen supported the notion in his book H.C. Andersen, en sand myte [a true myth.