The Andersen fairy tales in "Andersen's Classic Fairy Tales and Stories" can be roughly divided into seven series: stories with magical elements, such as "The Shadow", "The Bell", etc.; stories with animals as the protagonists, such as "The Ugly Duckling", "The High Jumper", etc.; stories with trees and flowers as the protagonists, such as "Little Ida's Flowers", etc.; stories with personification of inanimate objects as the protagonists, such as "The Steadfast Tin Soldier", "The Darning Needle" ", etc.: realistic stories in a strange world, such as "The Nightingale", etc.; realistic stories in a recognizable world, such as "The Gardener and the Master", etc.: stories with the author as the protagonist, such as "The Janitor's Son", "Under the Willow Tree" etc.
Author: (Denmark) Hans Christian Andersen Translator: Shi Qin'e Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875), a great Danish writer, He has written poems, plays, and novels, and is immortalized in the world with his fairy tale creations. He published more than 170 fairy tales throughout his life. The most famous chapters include "The Steadfast Tin Soldier", "The Snow Queen", "Thumbelina", "The Little Match Girl", "The Ugly Duckling" and "The Daughter of the Sea" Wait, they have already become the bright pearls in the treasure house of fairy tales. Shi Qin'e is a famous contemporary translator and an expert in Nordic literature at the Institute of Foreign Languages, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He once worked in the Chinese Embassy in Sweden and Iceland for a long time, and was a visiting scholar and professor at Stockholm University in Sweden, the University of Copenhagen in Denmark, and the University of Oslo in Norway. His translated works include "Edda", "Saga", "The Adventures of Niels Riding a Goose", "Andersen's Fairy Tales and Stories", etc. He has won the Swedish Writers Fund Award, first prize at the fifth (2001) and sixth (2003) National Outstanding Foreign Literature Book Awards, and won the Hans Christian Andersen International Award in 2010 (2006). In 2007, he received the Honorary Certificate of Senior Translator from the Translators Association of China, and in 2010, he received the Danish Flag Knight Medal.