Hans Christian Andersen is one of the world's most popular storytellers, and his fairy tales are among the best-loved works of literature. Hans Christian Andersen: Classic Fairy Tales collects 100 of Andersen's incomparable fairy tales and stories, among them 'Thumbelina', 'The Little Match Girl', 'The Princess and the Pea', 'The Red Shoes', 'The Wild Swans', and his fantasy masterpiece, 'The Snow-Queen'. The book is abundantly illustrated with more than 100 hundred drawings and colour plates by Dugald Stewart Walker and Hans Tegner, two of Andersen's best-known illustrators.