The Garden of Paradise

Short story by Hans Christian Andersen (2 April 1805 – 4 August 1875)
"The Garden of Paradise"
Short story by Hans Christian Andersen (2 April 1805 – 4 August 1875)
Illustration by Anne Anderson
Original titleParadisets Have
CountryDenmark
LanguageDanish
Genre(s)Literary fairy tale
Publication
Published inFairy Tales Told for Children. New Collection. Second Booklet (Eventyr, fortalte for Børn. Ny Samling. Andet Hefte)
Publication typeFairy tale collection
PublisherC. A. Reitzel
Media typePrint
Publication date19 October 1839
Chronology
 
The Rose Elf
 
The Flying Trunk

"The Garden of Paradise" (Danish: Paradisets Have) is a literary fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen first published by C. A. Reitzel in Copenhagen, Denmark on 19 October 1839 with "The Flying Trunk" and "The Storks" in Fairy Tales Told for Children. New Collection. Second Booklet (Eventyr, fortalte for Børn. Ny Samling. Andet Hefte).[1] Maximilian II of Bavaria read and liked the tale.[2] Andersen biographer Jackie Wullschlager considers the story and its two companion pieces in the booklet as "grim". "The Garden of Paradise" ends with Death approaching a young prince and warning him to expiate his sins for, one day, he will come for him and "clap him in the black coffin".[3]

References

Footnotes
  1. ^ "Hans Christian Andersen : The Garden of Paradise". Hans Christian Andersen Center. Retrieved 2009-11-10.
  2. ^ Andersen 436
  3. ^ Wullschlager 194
Works cited
  • Andersen, Jens (2005), Hans Christian Andersen: A New Life, translated by Tiina Nunnally, New York, Woodstock, and London: Overlook Duckworth, ISBN 1-58567-737-X
  • Wullschlager, Jackie (2000), Hans Christian Andersen: The Life of a Storyteller, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, ISBN 0-226-91747-9

External links

  • The full text of The Garden of Paradise at Wikisource
  •  Danish Wikisource has original text related to this article: Paradisets Have
  • Media related to The Garden of Paradise at Wikimedia Commons
  • "Paradisets Have". Original Danish text
  • The Garden of Paradise". English translation by Jean Hersholt
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