The Ice-Maiden: and Other Tales. by H. C. Andersen

"The Ice-Maiden: and Other Tales. by H. C. Andersen" by Hans Christian Andersen is a collection of fairy tales published in 1861. The title story follows Rudy, an orphaned boy who becomes a skilled mountain climber and falls in love with Babette, a miller's daughter. Their path to marriage faces obstacles including her father's impossible demands and Rudy's dangerous encounters with the mysterious Ice Maiden, a supernatural being who claimed him as a child and continues to haunt his life. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian), 1805-1875
Translator Fuller, Fanny
Title The Ice-Maiden: and Other Tales.
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ice-Maiden
Contents The Ice-maiden -- The Butterfly -- The Psyche -- The Snail and the Rose-tree
Credits Produced by David Edwards, Jeannie Howse and the Online
Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This
book was produced from scanned images of public domain
material from the Google Print project.)
Reading Level Reading ease score: 77.4 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.
Language English
LoC Class PZ: Language and Literatures: Juvenile belles lettres
Subject Fairy tales
Category Text
eBook-No. 18604
Release Date
Last Update Jul 1, 2006
Copyright Public domain in the USA.
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