The nightingale by H. C. Andersen

"The nightingale" by H. C. Andersen is a literary fairy tale set in imperial China. It tells the story of an emperor who discovers a nightingale living in his palace gardens, whose beautiful song moves him to tears. When a jeweled mechanical bird arrives as a gift, the real nightingale is forgotten and banished. Years later, when the emperor falls deathly ill, only one song can save him from Death's grasp. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian), 1805-1875
Illustrator Newill, Mary J., 1860-1947
Translator Dulcken, H. W. (Henry William), 1832-1894
Uniform Title Nattergalen. English
Title The nightingale
Original Publication United States: R. H. Russel, 1898.
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nightingale_(fairy_tale)
Credits Sonya Schermann and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
Reading Level Reading ease score: 80.0 (6th grade). Easy to read.
Language English
LoC Class PZ: Language and Literatures: Juvenile belles lettres
Subject Fairy tales
Subject Nightingale -- Juvenile fiction
Subject Songbirds -- Juvenile fiction
Subject China -- Kings and rulers -- Juvenile fiction
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EBook-No. 71096
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Copyright Status Public domain in the USA.
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