Title: Complete Fairy Tales
Author: Hans Christian Anderson
Genre: Short stories; fairy tales
Pages: 1504
Rating: 3/5 stars
Reading Challenges: T4MC -- Short Stories; Genre -- Short Stories; Ebook; 52 Books -- Week 9
How I Got It: iPad download
Reared in poverty, Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen created more than 200 folk and fairy tales beloved by countless generations of children -- and adults.
Overall I am very disappointed in this story collection. I adore the Grimm fairy tales and thought this would be similar. I was mistaken. These are morality tales cloaked in sometimes a fanciful nature (I know the Grimm stories are too, but they hide it better). They are overtly Christian in their subject matter and tone. I just didn't enjoy these stories. I find my mind wandering while reading. I couldn't kept on track. It's taken me almost three weeks to get through this volume a bit at a time. I made it, but I won't be revisiting this volume any time in the future. I'll stick with my Grimm tales.
