The Snowman (fairy tale)
| "The Snowman" | |||
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| Short story by Hans Christian Andersen | |||
 The Hanfstaengl portrait of Andersen July 1860 | |||
| Original title | Sneemanden | ||
| Country | Denmark | ||
| Language | Danish | ||
| Genre(s) | Literary fairy tale | ||
| Publication | |||
| Published in | New Fairy Tales and Stories. Second Series. First Collection. 1861. (Nye Eventyr og Historier. Anden Række. Første Samling. 1861.) | ||
| Publication type | Fairy tale collection | ||
| Publisher | C.A. Reitzel | ||
| Media type | |||
| Publication date | 2 March 1861 | ||
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"The Snowman" (Danish: Sneemanden) is a literary fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen about a snowman who falls in love with a stove.[1] It was published by C.A. Reitzel in Copenhagen as Sneemanden on 2 March 1861.[2] Andersen biographer Jackie Wullschlager describes the tale as a lyrical and poignant complement to Andersen's "The Fir-Tree" of December 1844.[3]
References
[edit]- Footnotes
- ^ Wullschlager 2002, p. 378
- ^ Nye Eventyr 1861
- ^ Wullschlager 2002, pp. 378–379
- Works cited
- Andersen, Hans Christian; Nunnally, Tiina (Transl.); Wullschlager, Jackie (Ed.) (2005) [2004], Fairy Tales, New York: Viking Press (Penguin Books), ISBN 0-670-03377-4
- Andersen, Jens; Nunnally, Tiina (Transl.) (2005) [2003], Hans Christian Andersen: A New Life, New York, Woodstock, and London: Overlook Duckworth, ISBN 1-58567-737-X
- Eckstein, Bob (2007), The History of the Snowman, New York: Simon & Schuster, ISBN 978-1-4169-4066-1
- Nye Eventyr og Historier. Anden Række. Første Samling. 1861., Hans Christian Andersen Center, retrieved 2009-06-15
- Prince, Alison (1998), Hans Christian Andersen: The Fan Dancer, London: Allison & Busby, ISBN 0-7490-0478-9
- Wullschlager, Jackie (2002) [2000], Hans Christian Andersen: The Life of a Storyteller, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, ISBN 0-226-91747-9
External links
[edit]- "The Snow Man" English translation by Jean Hersholt
- "Sneemanden" Original Danish text
