Includes index.

Tinderbox -- Little Claus and big Claus -- Princess and the pea -- Little Ida's flowers -- Inchelina -- Naughty boy -- Travelling companion -- Little mermaid -- Emporor's new clothes -- Magic galoshes -- Daisy -- Steadfast tin soldier -- Wild swans -- Garden of eden -- Flying trunk -- Storks -- Bronze pig -- Pact of friendship -- Rose from Homer's grave -- Sandman -- Rose elf -- Swineherd -- Buckwheat -- Angel -- Nightingale -- Sweethearts -- Ugly duckling -- Pine tree -- Snow quenn -- Mother Elderberry -- Darning needle -- Bell -- Grandmother -- Hill of the elves -- Red shoes -- Jumping competition -- Shepherdess and the chimney sweep -- Holger the dane -- Little match girl -- From the ramparts of the citadel -- From a window in Vartov -- Old street lamp -- Neighbors -- Little truck.

Shadow -- Old house -- Drop of water -- Happy family -- Story of a mother -- Collar -- Flax -- Bird Phoenix -- Story -- Silent album -- Old gravestone -- There is a difference -- World's most beautiful rose -- Year's story -- On the last day -- It is perfectly true! -- Swans' nest -- Happy disposition -- Grief -- Everything in its right place -- Pixy and the grocer -- Millennium -- Under the willow tree -- Five peas from the same pod -- Leaf from heaven -- She was no good -- Last pearl -- Two maidens -- uttermost parts of the sea -- Piggy bank -- Ib and little Christina -- Clod Hans -- Thorny path -- Servant -- Bottle -- Philosopher's stone -- How to cook soup upon a sausage pin -- Pepperman's nightcap -- "Something" -- Old oak tree's last dream -- Talisman -- Bog king's daughter -- Winners -- Bell deep.

Evil king -- What the wind told about Valdemar Daae and his daughters -- Girl who stepped on bread -- Watchman of the tower -- Anne Lisbeth -- Children's prattle -- String of pearls -- Pen and the inkwell -- Dead child -- Cock and the weathercock -- "Lovely" -- Story from the dunes -- Puppeteer -- Two brothers -- Old church bell -- Twelve passengers -- Dung beetle -- What father does is always right -- Snowman -- In the duckyard -- Muse of the twentieth century -- Ice maiden -- Butterfly -- Psyche -- Snail and the rosebush -- "Will-o-the-wisps are in town," said the bog witch -- Windmill -- Silver shilling -- Bishop of Borglum Cloister and his kinsmen -- In the children's room -- Golden treasure -- How the storm changed the signs -- Teapot -- Songbird of the people -- Little green ones -- Pixy and the gardener's wife.

Presents 156 tales accompanied by the author's notes on the background of his stories.

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