Hans Christian Andersen's Complete Fairy Tales (Leather-bound Classics) Kindle Edition

The media could not be loaded.  Love the hardcover artwork! The red roses glisten as you move the book. It is as pictured and is absolutely beautiful with the golden edged pages and fairy resting in the pink flower against the baby blue background! The only disappointment is that there are NO illustrations except for on the inside front and back cover.

Arrived on time. Packaged nicely. Book looks as pictured. I gave 4/5 * as these are not the true original stories. However take note, these are NOT books for children. It will take a young adult/adult to appreciate them. While still horrific tales, they are not the originals, which is why I purchased & needed this book to cite facts for a paper.If it’s for your enjoyment as a literary fan, such as myself, it’s fine. While it did not serve my purpose for purchasing, I’m happy I bought it for my collection.

1. Very few illustrations, like one small illustration every 200 pages.2. Very tiny print, 6-8 point font.3. Incomplete. It was missing about 6 tales.4. The table of contents is NOT alphabetical so it takes forever to find the tale you're looking for.5. NO index at all.I was so disappointed in this. It's not complete and it's not really illustrated. Combine that with the teeny tiny font and thin paper and this book is not worth your money.

From the outside, this looks like a beautiful book. However, I was disappointed to find out that the one page (so far only found one) wasn't even cut properly... as seen in the pictures. The paper is also incredibly thin. Total letdown.

I personally love the cover and the fact that it is the complete story collection. I don’t mind that there isn’t any pictures because I am not reading this to any children. However, I think there is a sense of beauty in using your own imagination to bring these stories to life!And for those people saying it is tiny print. It really isn’t.. it is the standard 12pt New Times Roman font. We are so used to reading things on our phones or computers which are typically in a larger font so I think some people forget that traditionally books were/are printed this way. So keep that in mind when you are purchasing books if you aren’t an avid reader.I love this book and I am so happy with this purchase!

Classic stories from the source!I bought this so that I could read it to my children before bed. They really love the stories and I feel like it's better than watching their movie counterparts. I feel like the morals are still applicable even in this modern age and perfect for young listeners/readers. The stories aren't that difficult to read however they do read better when spoken aloud adding emphasis when storytelling.Pros:All of the Fairy Tales we know in one beautifully bound bookVery easy to read, even better when read aloudCons:Pages are a bit on the thinner side and can tear easily if mishandledOverall:The book is a great gift for a young reader, an eager listener, or for someone who just wants to add this beautiful book to their libraries!

The book is high quality with beautiful binding and pages are edged in gold. A real collector's book. However, I was looking for a collection of bed time stories to read to my four year old. There are no illustrations and the print is small. The language is rich but too old fashioned for my four year old. This is a book for adults.

This is a review of the kindle edition of Hans Christian Andersen's Complete Fairy Tales. I notice that most of the reviews for it are for the hardcover edition. Paper and print quality for this edition were not an issue. The version I had was free of any illustrations except for the cover art.I was reading an older speech or essay by Daisaku Ikeda in either the World Tribune or Living Buddhism a while back in which he referred to a story by Hans Christian Anderson called “The Silver Shilling.” It occurred to me then that not only had I never heard of this particular story before, but I had never read any of Hans Christian Anderson’s stories in their original format. By this, of course, I mean a good translation as they were originally written in Danish. This book has no mention of who the translator was.There are 127 stories in this collection of which I only know about ten or twelve, and not all of them very well. Even of the ones I thought I knew pretty well, some as they are presented here are so different from the frequent retellings you hear most often as to be almost unrecognizable. “The Red Shoes” for example is much different from the version you usually see. “The Fir Tree” is probably the story I know the best. It usually finds its way into Christmas anthologies because of the little fir tree’s experience one year as a Christmas tree. It is substantially the same as the story I know.The designation of fairy tales for these stories is surprising, as fairies are not mentioned in no more than three of them and elves in perhaps as many as five. Much more common are stories featuring birds, flowers, or inanimate objects who talk and act very much like people. In one case there is a bottle neck that has a surprisingly long story. There are also several life stories of pretty much average people; some of them live good lives and end by going to heaven and meeting someone they had lost. Others do not live so well and die very unhappy. There are three or four stories of boys and girls who played happily together as children but were later separated in one way or another. Some of these children were later reunited. Others drift away and never find each other again. Angels feature prominently in some of the stories. Almost all of the stories have a moral of some sort.There is also an unexpectedly large number of stories of the lives of prominent artists or writers, occasionally as viewed by the flowers or birds that lived in their yards. Most of these were Scandinavian artists so I didn’t recognize many of them. They almost invariably died young, however.

I'm very disappointed. I bought a leatherbound special edition as new of Hans Christian Anderson fairy tales and the book arrived unwrapped and pages were yellow like old paper and the print was faded. I wasn't keen but assumed it was an antique effect as it was bought new. I gave it to someone as an heirloom gift and ordered a similar book in the series and that arrived wrapped in cellophane with new white pages and normal dark unfaded print. I had a look on YouTube book reviews to see if anyone had reviewed the book, they confirmed that the book was indeed supposed to match the other books in the series and have white pages normal bla k ink. Either my book was used, or it was old stock. Or someone had removed the wrapper a while ago (it arrived unwrapped) and the paper has oxidised. It was like an old library book of about 10 yrs or more. However, it was sent to commemorate the birth of my premature niece, I didn't have time, and it took me time to find out if it should be wrapped and find examples of the book that confirmed Barnes and Noble print in a dark print on bright white premium paper with gilt edges. I feel a bit cheated and embarrassed.

Beautiful book . A great keepsake for any book fan ! Definitely a family heirloom!

I am an avid reader of just about anything and now with grandchildren am reading traditional fairytales to the kids before the PC brigade get fairytales banned.I bought the kindle version which is convenient to use without lights whilst reading to the little ones.The tales are shortened versions which works fine with toddlers.I would prefer the printed version because of the artwork pictures. Even though one needs a light at night, I read with the kids all the time and my darlings often grab my hand to come and read.The four year old reads to the two year old with the aid of pictures.The printed books help a child’s imagination and stimulates interest and questionsAll that said, the printed version is ridiculously expensive for a thin book, large print and shortened story versionseducational and entertaining

This book arrived today, a few minutes ago to be precise. I was so looking forward to it and on opening the package is he book looked lovely. First impressions very good but that’s about the start and end of it. The paper quality is awful and the writing is so small that you’ll either need to squint, use a magnifying glass or get some powerful reading glasses. It certainly isn’t worth the money and I wish I’d paid that much more for a far better quality book, and one I could read without the need of support.The book was for myself, to relive the love of reading fairytales from my childhood, sadly this book has taken away part of the pleasure.If only books were made to the quality they used to be from my childhood days.

I was disappointed with this purchase. The type is very small and dense so reading it is not pleasurable. The illustrations don't appeal but this is a matter of personal taste so the rating is based upon the tiny text size in a children's book.