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"The Snow Queen" (Danish: Snedronningen) is an original fairy tale written by Danish author Hans Christian Andersen. The tale was first published 21 December 1844 in New Fairy Tales. First Volume. Second Collection. 1845. (Danish: Nye Eventyr. Første Bind. Anden Samling. 1845.) The story centres on the struggle between good and evil as experienced by Gerda and her friend, Kai. The story is one of Andersen's longest and most highly acclaimed stories.

A Flea, a Grasshopper, and a Leap-Frog once wanted to see which could jump highest; and they invited the whole world, and everybody else besides who chose to come to see the festival. Three famous jumpers were they, as everyone would say, when they all met together in the room.

In the street, up there, was an old, a very old house - it was almost three hundred years old, for that might be known by reading the great beam on which the date of the year was carved: together with tulips and hop-binds there were whole verses spelled as in former times, and over every window was a distorted face cut out in the beam. The one story stood forward a great way over the other; and directly under the eaves was a leaden spout with a dragon's head; the rain-water should have run out of the mouth, but it ran out of the belly, for there was a hole in the spout.

كان عمر "نعيم" سبع سنوات عندما جاءت "نعمة" اليتيمة لتصبح زميلة لعبه فقد كان وحيد والديه. اكتشف والد نعيم جمالَ صوت نعمة وقدرتها الفائقة على حفظ الألحان فاختار لها من...

منذ أعوامٍ وأعوام عاش في بلاد المغرب أميرٌ صغير السن ذو عظمةٍ وسلطان اسمه الأمير صفوان.. أراد الأمير صفوان أن يتعرَّف على ثقافة الأمّم من حوله وأن يزور جيرانه من...

ذات صباح وقعت سلسلةٌ من الأحداث الغريبة في جوٍّ من الغموض والتكتم والسرية، فقد تجمع على رصيف محطة القاهرة ثلاثة رجالٍ يبدو عليهم الوقار وفي صحبتهم عددٌ من الشبان...

أين أنا؟ أين اختفت الممرات الجبلية لوادي الملوك؟ منذ الفجر أتجول بين تلال البر الغربيّ بالأقصر باحثةً عن كنز! والدي يقول لي بغير توقف: حظّك حسنٌ دائما يا ندى.. إذن...

Every author has some peculiarity in his descriptions or in his style of writing. Those who do not like him, magnify it, shrug up their shoulders, and exclaim--there he is again! I, for my part, know very well how I can bring about this movement and this exclamation. It would happen immediately if I were to begin here, as I intended to do, with: "Rome has its Corso, Naples its Toledo" - "Ah! that Andersen; there he is again!" they would cry; yet I must, to please my fancy, continue quite quietly, and add: "But Copenhagen has its East Street."

A mother has not slept for three days and nights watching over her sick child. When she closes her eyes for just a moment, Death comes and takes her child. The mother rushes into the street and asks a woman, who is Night, which way Death went. Night tells her to go into the forest, but first the mother must sing every lullaby that she has ever sung for her child. In the forest, a thorn bush tells her which way to continue, but only after she has warmed the bush by pressing it to her chest, causing her to bleed.

A peasant girl named Karen is adopted by a rich old lady after her mother's death and grows up vain and spoiled. Before her adoption, Karen had a rough pair of red shoes; now she has her adoptive mother buy her a pair of red shoes fit for a princess. Karen is so enamored of her new shoes that she wears them to church, but the old lady scolds her: it's highly improper and she must only wear black shoes in church from now on. But next Sunday, Karen cannot resist the urge to put the red shoes on again.