I: Tales for children -- The emperor's new clothes -- The snow queen -- The princess and the pea -- The nightingale -- The ugly duckling -- The little mermaid -- The tinderbox -- The wild swans -- Thumbelina -- The little match girl -- The steadfast tin soldier -- Ole shut-eye -- II: Tales for adults -- The red shoes -- The shadow -- The psyche -- The most astonishing thing -- The story of a mother -- The girl who trod on the loaf -- The phoenix -- The goblin and the grocer -- Auntie Toothache -- The flying trunk -- Heartache -- The bell -- III: Biographies -- A fairy-tale life? Hans Christian Andersen -- Andersen's illustrators -- IV: Andersen's readers -- V: Bibliography -- Works by Hans Christian Andersen -- Secondary literature.