Fairy Tales (“The Travelling Companion”, “The Saucy Boy”, “Thumbelina” and other) - Hans Christian Anderson
This collection of audio books, specially read for the AudioCloset.com site, contains fairy tales from “Stories Told to Children” collection, published between 1835 and 1842. The stories tell about the Truth, about good and wicked people, about love and cruelty that often are taken for granted in common life. Some fairy tales are short and simple, some are prolonged and detailed.
This collection includes six fairy tales.
In “The Travelling Companion” readers can find an example of sacrifice, meekness and hopefulness in the life of heroes. Some of them show evidently and, at the same time, smoothly recognizable characters of piety in deeds of unconditional love, mutual care, supernatural powers and just reward.
The story is fulfilled with beautiful descriptions of environment, stated in a simple and concurrently spectacular literary manner. As many of Anderson’s stories, this one is full of adventures and goes to a happy end.
In contrary, goes “The Saucy Boy” story, about a meanness instigator in deceptive sweet lovely appearance – also quite recognizable real character, present in every one of us to a variable degree.
In “The Tinder-Box” readers-listeners can get familiarized with royal town habits, and recognize human life contradictions in the story of a jaunty soldier. While some aspects of the hero make up the pattern of bravery, resourcefulness and optimism, other show brutality, greediness and selfishness. Among with necessary mystic fairy tale attributes, the story offers some hidden stuff for children to think over.
“Thumbelina” or “Little Tiny” gives some botanical introduction for kids. It is a purely Danish fairy tale with its distinctive simplicity style that reveals in the course of the plot and in character’s behavior. Most relations between heroes in the story can be projected to our own life, as their distortion of normality is shown very vividly. And, again, the end of the story leaves some asperity in feelings that can be referred to common life’s affairs.
“The Princess and the Pea” is a classical story, as its topicality still remains in the contemporary society of fashion, shopping and glamour lifestyle. The idea of the fairy tale is so evident, that the author couldn’t help writing it any shorter.
And, in the end, it should be emphasized after Anderson, that all these are true stories.
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Length of this audio book is 2 hours.
This audio book is read by: Andrey Zonin.
The quality of this audio file is fine.
26 May 2009 в 06:14
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