The Garden of Paradise

"The Garden of Paradise"
Illustration by Anne Anderson
Author	Hans Christian Andersen (2 April 1805 – 4 August 1875)
Original title	"Paradisets Have"
Country	Denmark
Language	Danish
Genre(s)	Literary fairy tale
Published in	Fairy Tales Told for Children. New Collection. Second Booklet. 1839 (Eventyr, fortalte for Børn. Ny Samling. Andet Hefte. 1839.)
Publication type	Fairy tale collection
Publisher	C. A. Reitzel
Media type	Print
Publication date	19 October 1839
Preceded by	"The Rose Elf"
Followed by	"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 the second booklet of Fairy Tales Told for Children. New Collection.^[1] King Max 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

↑ "Hans Christian Andersen : The Garden of Paradise". Hans Christian Andersen Center. Retrieved 2009-11-10.
↑ Andersen 436
↑ 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
"Paradisets Have". Original Danish text
The Garden of Paradise". English translation by Jean Hersholt

Hans Christian Andersen

Bibliography

Collections	Fairy Tales Told for Children (1835–1837) Fairy Tales Told for Children (1838) New Fairy Tales (1843)

Stories	"The Angel" "The Elf Mound" "The Emperor's New Clothes" "The Fir-Tree" "The Flying Trunk" "The Galoshes of Fortune" "The Garden of Paradise" "The Goblin and the Grocer" "Golden Treasure" "The Ice-Maiden" "The Little Match Girl" "The Little Mermaid" "The Most Incredible Thing" "The Nightingale" "Ole Lukøje" "The Princess and the Pea" "The Red Shoes" "The Shadow" "The Shepherdess and the Chimney Sweep" "The Snow Queen" "The Snowman" "The Steadfast Tin Soldier" "The Story of a Mother" "The Sweethearts; or, The Top and the Ball" "The Swineherd" "The Tallow Candle" "The Teapot" "Thumbelina" "The Tinderbox" "The Ugly Duckling" "The Wild Swans"

Novels	The Improvisatore (1835) The Two Baronesses (1848)

Films	Hans Christian Andersen (1952) The Daydreamer (1966) Hans Christian Andersen: My Life as a Fairytale (2001 miniseries)

Related	Hans Christian Andersen Museum Hans Christian Andersen's Childhood Home Pleated Christmas hearts International Children's Book Day Hans Christian Andersen Award Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award

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