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Narrated by:
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Kate Reading
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Richard Matthews
About this listen
Hans Christian Andersen was the profoundly imaginative writer and storyteller who revolutionized literature for children. He gave us the now standard versions of some traditional fairy tales—with an anarchic twist—but many of his most famous tales sprang directly from his imagination.
The 30 stories here range from exuberant early works such as "The Tinderbox" and "The Emperor's New Clothes" through poignant masterpieces such as "The Little Mermaid" and "The Ugly Duckling", to more subversive later tales such as "The Ice Maiden" and "The Wood Nymph".
©2004 Tiina Nunnally (P)2005 Penguin Audio and Books on Tape, Inc.Listeners also enjoyed...
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Performance
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Story
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- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
-
Story
The vengeful King Schahriar agrees to stave off the execution of Queen Scheherazade until she finishes a particularly compelling story. Her plan? Bleed one tale into another. Through fanciful histories, romances, tragedies, comedies, poems, riddles, and songs, Scheherazade prolongs her life by holding the king’s rapt attention. With origins in Persian and Eastern Indian folklore, the stories of The Arabian Nights have been reworked, reshaped, revised, collected, and supplemented throughout the centuries by various authors and scholars.
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Critic reviews
- 2005 Audie Award Nominee, Short Stories/Collections
Dreamland Awaits - Bedtime Stories for All
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Great stories! Wish it had chapter headings
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Kate Reading and Richard Matthews accomplish the hard task of reaching the author's level of grandeur by being both magical and magestic in their performances. Miss Reading has a commanding human set of emotions in her reading emoting repertoire which evoke each one of those emotions like a virtuoso.
Try listening to "The Wind Tells About Valdemar Daa And His Daughters' and not feel something universally profound in your soul. This is achieved compliments of both Andersen and Reading. This story is to me the highlight of this magnum opus.
My favourite audiobook on Audible (period)
Anderson is a literary king. "A real king!"
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Fairy tale
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