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"The Princess and the Pea"
Short story by Hans Christian Andersen
1911 Illustration by Edmund Dulac
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Original title
Prinsessen paa Ærten
Translator
Charles Boner
Country
Denmark
Language
Danish
Genre(s)
Literary fairy tale
Publication
Published in
Tales, Told for Children. First Collection. First Booklet. 1835.
Publication type
Fairy tale collection
Publisher
C.A. Reitzel
Media type
Print
Publication date
8 May 1835
Published in English
1846 in A Danish Story-Book
"The Princess and the Pea" (Danish: Prinsessen paa Ærten, lit. 'The Princess on the Pea')[1] is a literary fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen about a princess who is tested to become wife to a lonely prince. The tale was first published with three others by Andersen in a cheap booklet on 8 May 1835 in Copenhagen by C. A. Reitzel.
The tale is classified in the Aarne–Thompson–Uther Index as ATU 704, "The Princess and the Pea".[2]
^Tatar (2008), pp. 70–77
^Haase, Donald, ed. (2008). The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Folktales and Fairy Tales. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 798.
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