This week, we have a classic fairy tale from master of the genre Hans Christian Andersen, 'The Little Mermaid'. This is, of course, a very different story to the famous Disney film of the same name. Enchanting, beguiling, tragic, with hints of the morality tale and an absence of singing crabs, it is indeed a fairy tale, but perhaps more of a literary work than that simple title suggests.
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Books - (buying anything on Amazon through this link helps support the podcast):
Hans Christian Andersen's Complete Fairy Tales - https://amzn.to/3cb8RLf
Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales: An Illustrated Classic - https://amzn.to/3vJfcVZ
The Little Mermaid (with original illustrations) - https://amzn.to/3wVMf9z
Films
Hans Christian Andersen - https://amzn.to/3yUCBWo
Disney's The Little Mermaid - https://amzn.to/3uIMqU0
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