The Snowman (fairy tale)

For the Raymond Briggs book, seeThe Snowman.

"The Snowman"
Short storybyHans Christian Andersen
TheHanfstaenglportrait of Andersen July 1860
Original title	Sneemanden
Country	Denmark
Language	Danish
Genre(s)	Literaryfairy tale
Publication
Published in	New Fairy Tales and Stories. Second Series. First Collection. 1861. (Nye Eventyr og Historier. Anden Række. Første Samling. 1861.)
Publication type	Fairy tale collection
Publisher	C.A. Reitzel
Media type	Print
Publication date	2 March 1861
Chronology
What the Old Man Does is Always Right In the Duck Yard

"The Snowman"(Danish:Sneemanden) is aliterary fairy talebyHans Christian Andersenabout a snowman who falls in love with a stove.It was published by C.A. Reitzel in Copenhagen asSneemandenon 2 March 1861.Andersen biographer Jackie Wullschlager describes the tale as a lyrical and poignant complement to Andersen's "The Fir-Tree"of December 1844.

Scharff as Gennaro inBournonville's balletNapoli,1860

An illustration c. 1870 from "The Snowman": "He had been born amid the triumphant shouts of the boys, and welcomed by the jingling of sleigh bells and the cracking of whips from the passing sleighs." ( "The Snowman". H.C. Andersen, translated byJean Hersholt,1949)

References

Footnotes

Works cited

• Andersen, Hans Christian; Nunnally, Tiina (Transl.); Wullschlager, Jackie (Ed.) (2005) [2004],Fairy Tales,New York:Viking Press(Penguin Books),ISBN0-670-03377-4
• Andersen, Jens; Nunnally, Tiina (Transl.) (2005) [2003],Hans Christian Andersen: A New Life,New York, Woodstock, and London: Overlook Duckworth,ISBN1-58567-737-X
• Eckstein, Bob (2007),The History of the Snowman,New York:Simon & Schuster,ISBN978-1-4169-4066-1
• Nye Eventyr og Historier. Anden Række. Første Samling. 1861.,Hans Christian Andersen Center,retrieved2009-06-15
• Prince, Alison (1998),Hans Christian Andersen: The Fan Dancer,London: Allison & Busby,ISBN0-7490-0478-9
• Wullschlager, Jackie (2002) [2000],Hans Christian Andersen: The Life of a Storyteller,Chicago:University of Chicago Press,ISBN0-226-91747-9

External links

• "The Snow Man"English translation byJean Hersholt
• "Sneemanden"Original Danish text