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Однажды ты станешь таким взрослым, что снова начнёшь читать сказки»―говорил известный британский писатель, поэт и филолог Клайв Стейплз Льюис. Эта цитата напоминает о том, что взрослость не означает потерю связи с очарованием и беззаботностью детства, а наоборот, может вдохновить на возвращение к любимым сказкам, чтобы найти в них новые смыслы и глубокое вдохновение.

Listen to a spellbinding version of the beloved classic "Beauty and the Beast" followed by two of Hans Christian Andersen's two classic fairy tales, "The Tinderbox" and "The Princess and the Pea". Prepare yourself for an hour of fascinating stories and storytelling.

The Little Mermaid, as adapted by Hans Christian Andersen, is a long tale with a complex plot which was first published in 1836. It tells the story of a young mermaid who ascends to the surface on her 15th birthday, as is the custom. She happens upon a ship in the throes of a storm, and saves the life of a prince who was about to drown. She falls in love with him, vows to find him again and to love him forever. There are, however, different rules and fates that separate mermaids from people, and the little mermaid undergoes many trials because of the choice she made.

Far out at sea, where the water is the bluest of blue, lived a Little Mermaid with her five sisters in an enchanting underwater city surrounded by beautiful flowers and exotic fish of all kinds. Fascinated by stories of the world beyond where the animals and humans dwell, they eagerly awaited their turn to the surface. So, as decree allowed, the Little Mermaid was permitted to rise out of the sea to sit on the rocks in the moonlight on her 16th birthday. In this strange new world, she saves a charming prince from certain death and falls in love. 

The Princess and the Pea is the story of a prince who wishes to marry a princess but is having difficulty finding a suitable wife. One night a young woman who claims to be a princess arrives at the palace, so the prince's mother decides to test their unexpected guest by placing a pea under her bed, covered by 20 feather mattresses. In the morning, the guest tells her hosts that she had a sleepless night, kept awake by something hard in the bed. So the two are married because only a real princess would be sensitive enough to feel a pea through so much bedding.

A spirit of the forest… longing to experience the world beyond the trees. In The Dryad, Hans Christian Andersen tells a quietly powerful and deeply moving tale of transformation, desire, and the fleeting nature of life. Bound to her tree, a young dryad dreams of seeing the wider world—and...

A beautiful princess lives in a magnificent kingdom deep, deep below the sea. While her five older sisters are content being mermaids, the little mermaid wonders endlessly about what life is like among the humans on land. On her 15th birthday, she saves a handsome prince from a terrible shipwreck. Unfortunately, the prince thinks that another girl—a human—rescued him instead. How much suffering and how many sacrifices is the little mermaid willing to make to live happily ever after with this handsome prince? Find out in this classic fairy tale.

What happens when an evil queen envies a princess for her beauty? How does the poor son of a farmer become the killer of giants? And what price is too high for a mermaid to become a human?

In this deeply moving tale from Hans Christian Andersen, a grieving mother struggles to accept the death of her young son. Consumed by sorrow and unable to find comfort among the living, she wanders to the child’s grave in the quiet of the night, where she encounters a mysterious figure who offers to show her what lies beyond death.

Time passes… but some things are never truly lost. In Delaying Is Not Forgetting, Hans Christian Andersen delivers a thoughtful and quietly profound tale about memory, responsibility, and the passage of time. Through a simple yet symbolic narrative, Andersen explores the idea that postponement...

Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen (Volume 4) is a collection of fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen. Contents: The Flying Trunk / The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship / The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf / The Goblin and the Huckster / The Golden Treasure / The Galoshes of Fortune / She was Good for Nothing / Grandmother / A Great Grief / The Happy Family.

Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen (Volume 5) is a collection of fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen. Contents: A Leaf from Heaven / Holger Danske / Ib and Little Christina / The Ice Maiden / The Jewish Maiden / The Jumper / The Last Dream of the Old Oak / The Last Pearl / Little Claus and Big Claus / The Little Elder-tree Mother.

The Red Shoes is a literary fairy tale by Danish poet and author Hans Christian Andersen first published by C.A. Reitzel in Copenhagen 7 April 1845 in New Fairy Tales. First Volume. Third Collection (Nye Eventyr. Første Bind. Tredie Samling). Other tales in the volume include The Elf Mound (Elverhøi), The Jumpers (Springfyrene), The Shepherdess and the Chimney Sweep (Hyrdinden og Skorstensfejeren), and Holger Danske (Holger Danske).

Have you ever heard the story of the old Street Lamp? It's really not very amusing, but you might listen to it for once. - It was such an honest lamp, which had done its duty for many, many years and which was now going to be discarded. It was the last evening it hung on its post and gave light to the street beneath it. The Lamp felt like an old ballet dancer who is performing for the last time and who knows that tomorrow she will be in a cold garret.

Now I'm going to tell you a story that I heard when I was a little fellow and that I like better and better the more I think of it. For it's the same with stories as with many people; the older they grow, the nicer they grow, and that is delightful.

There were so many toys in the nursery. On the top of the cabinet stood the penny bank, made of clay in the shape of a little pig. Of course, he had a slit in his back, which had been enlarged with a knife so that silver dollars also could be put in; and two such dollars had been slipped into the box, along with a great number of pennies. The Money Pig was stuffed so full he could no longer rattle, which is the highest honor a Money Pig can attain. There he stood, high up on the shelf, looking down on everything else in the room.

In the German country of Württemberg, where the beautiful acacia trees bloom beside the highways, and the apple and pear trees bend down in autumn under the weight of their ripe blessings, there lies the little town of Marbach. It belongs to the class of quite unimportant towns, but it is located in a beautiful spot near the Neckar, the river that flows swiftly past towns and green vineyards and old knights' castles, to join its waters with those of the proud Rhine.

This is a story of the sand dunes of Jutland, but it doesn't begin there; no, it begins far away to the south, in Spain. The ocean is the highway between the two countries. So now let your thoughts journey to Spain!

Rosemarie Fendel erzählt zarte, philosophisch weise eher unbekanntere Werke von Hans Christian Andersen. Mit ihrem wunderbaren Staunen in der Stimme liest sie sechs Märchen des dänischen Schriftstellers, denen eines gemeinsam ist:. Sie spiegeln Freude, Sehnsucht, Trauer und Glück wider. aber auch stolze Schönheit, stille Bescheidenheit und stetige Vergänglichkeit…. "Die schönste Rose der Welt“ ist eine Hommage an die Liebe.