The Tinderbox

The tale is about the cheerful soldier, who with a help from an old witch and her tinderbox, wins the princess and marries her. The famous and much-loved Danish author Hans Christian Andersen celebrated his 200 anniversary the year 2005. On this occasion we have published five of his best tales r...

Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875) was a Danish author. Although a prolific writer of plays, travelogues, novels, and poems, he is best remembered for his literary fairy tales. Andersen's fairy tales have been translated into more than 125 languages, and have become culturally embedded in the We...