Contents -- Translator's Preface -- Introduction -- The Tinderbox -- The Princess on the Pea -- The Traveling Companion -- The Little Mermaid -- The Swineherd -- The Buckwheat -- The Nightingale -- The Sweethearts -- The Ugly Duckling -- The Fir Tree -- The Snow Queen: A Tale in Seven Stories -- The Shadow -- The Drop of Water -- The Little Match Girl -- The Story of a Mother -- The Bell -- The Flax -- In a Thousand Years' Time -- Clod-Hans : An Old Story Retold -- "She Was No Good" -- The Old Oak Tree's Last Dream : A Christmas Tale -- The Butterfly -- The Snail and the Rosebush -- What People Do Think Up -- The Gardener and the Lord and Lady -- The Cripple -- Aunite Toothache -- Notes -- Bibliography.