As it turns out, Hans Christian ... Andersen used a swan in his best-known story to signify the epitome of physical, social and creative grace. In the royal palaces of mid-nineteenth-century Northern ...

Now 2-year-old People’s Circus Theatre is getting in on the act, with a circus-driven adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Nightingale.” In the 1843 fairy tale, the emperor of China acquires a ...

The wild swans, and other stories by Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian), 1805-1875 Publication date 1922 Topics Fairy tales, Children's stories, Danish, Fairy tales -- Denmark, Children's stories, ...