Andersen’s Fairy Tales – H C Andersen

Andersen’s Fairy Tales – H C Andersen (Old/Bargain)|Sir Arthur Mee summed up the difference between the fairy-stories of Hans Christian Andersen and those of the Brothers Grimm and others by saying that unlike those of the Grimm ” most of his (Andersen’s) wonderful stories were told to him not by peasant folk but by fairies of his own brain.”