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About this edition: Hans Christian Andersen was a Danish author best known for writing children s storiesincluding The Little Mermaid and The Ugly Duckling But he didn t just write short stories and his intended audience wasn t restricted to children In addition to his fairy tales Andersen wrote poems plays novels travel books essays and more He hungered for recognition at home Denmark and abroad and he got it Eventually Today his stories can be read in over one hundred languages But no matter what language they re in Andersen s tales have got something for everyone In them you ll find beauty tragedy nature religion artfulness deception betrayal love death judgment penance and occasionally a happy ending They re complex tales but since Andersen himself was pretty complex we like to think that art imitates life Or something like that The Princess and the Pea is a literary fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen about a young woman whose royal identity is established by a test of her physical sensitivity The story tells of a prince who wants to marry a princess but is having difficulty finding a suitable wife Something is always wrong with those he meets and he cannot be certain they are real princesses One stormy night a young woman drenched with rain seeks shelter in the prince s castle She claims to be a princess so the prince s mother decides to test their unexpected unwitting guest by placing a pea in the bed she is offered for the night covered by 20 mattresses and 20 feather beds In the morning the guest tells her hosts that she endured a sleepless night kept awake by something hard in the bed which she is certain has bruised her The prince rejoices Only a real princess would have the sensitivity to feel a pea through such a quantity of bedding The two are married and the pea is placed in the Royal Museum Includes vintage illustration
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About this edition: Hans Christian Andersen was a Danish author best known for writing children's stories including "The Little Mermaid" and "The Ugly Duckling.
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