"The Emperor's New Clothes ""The Emperor's New Clothes"" () is a short tale written by Danish author Hans Christian Andersen, about two weavers who promise an emperor a new suit of clothes that they say is invisible to those who are unfit for their positions, stupid, or incompetent – while in reality, they make no clothes at all, making ""everyone"" believe the clothes are invisible to them. When the emperor parades before his subjects in his new ""clothes"", no one dares to say that they do not see any suit of clothes on him for fear that they will be"
"The Ugly Duckling (play) The Ugly Duckling is a one-act play by A.A. Milne written . The king and queen are worried because their daughter, Princess Camilla, is very plain, or rather appears to be plain because of a spell put on her at birth. The spell says that only the eyes of true love will reveal her beauty. Her parents come up with a plan to marry her to a prince from a far-away land who doesn't know what she looks like. They force Camilla to trade places with her beautiful but silly maid, Dulcibella, before the prince arrives."
"that it had already been written — ""The Ugly Duckling"". “The Ugly Duckling” was first published in Copenhagen, Denmark 11 November 1843 in ""New Fairy Tales. First Book. First Collection. 1844. (Nye Eventyr. Første Bind. Første Samling. 1844.)"". For the first time the phrase ""told for children"" was not part of the title—an omission Andersen scholar Jackie Wullschlager believes exhibited a new confidence on Andersen's part: ""These [tales] were the most mature and perfectly constructed tales he had written, and though some of them at once became, and have remained, favorites of children, Andersen here melds together the childlike and"
"folklore such as ""The Ugly Duckling"", ""The Crow and the Fox"", and ""The Emperor's Test"". Augusta Stevenson Augusta Stevenson (1869–1976) was a writer of children's literature and a teacher. She was born in Indianapolis, Indiana. She wrote over 400 children's books, her most famous being ""Childhood of Famous Americans"" and ""Children's Classics in Dramatic Form."" As well as writing, she taught in Indianapolis Public Schools. Childhood of Famous Americans was a series of biographies of famous Americans. The series began in 1932 with Abraham Lincoln, concentrating on his boyhood with a mix of fact and fictional episodes, aimed at children"
"New Fairy Tales (1844) New Fairy Tales () is a collection of four fairy tales written by Hans Christian Andersen and published by C. A. Reitzel in Copenhagen, Denmark on 10 November 1843. As was customary at the time however, the title page is dated 1844. The tales are completely Andersen's invention, owe no debt to folk or fairy lore, and are the most autobiographical of his several fairy tale collections. The collection was received enthusiastically by the Danish critics and public and became Andersen's break-through in the fairy tale genre. ""The Nightingale"" and ""The Ugly Duckling"" have been adapted"
"Iris Johansen Iris Johansen (born April 7, 1938) is an American author of crime fiction, suspense fiction, and romance novels. Iris Johansen left her job as an airline reservations agent in the early 1980s to begin writing romance novels. She then decided to turn to historical romantic suspense in the early 1990s starting with her novel ""The Wind Dancer"", before she found herself settling in the genre of crime fiction with her first thriller ""Ugly Duckling"" published in 1996. She has written in multiple genres to which some have landed her on the ""New York Times"" bestseller’s list. Johansen was"
"well. Some of his most famous fairy tales include ""The Emperor's New Clothes"", ""The Little Mermaid"", ""The Nightingale"", ""The Snow Queen"", ""The Ugly Duckling"", ""The Little Match Girl"", ""Thumbelina"", and many others. His stories have inspired ballets, plays, and animated and live-action films. One of Copenhagen's widest and busiest boulevards is named ""H.C. Andersens Boulevard"". Hans Christian Andersen was born in Odense, Denmark on 2 April 1805. He was an only child. Andersen's father, also Hans, considered himself related to nobility (his paternal grandmother had told his father that their family had belonged to a higher social class, but investigations"
"Hans Christian Andersen, known for his stories and fairy tales, e.g. ""The Ugly Duckling"", ""The Little Mermaid"" and ""The Snow Queen"". In recent history Johannes Vilhelm Jensen was also awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Karen Blixen is famous for her novels and short stories. Other Danish writers of importance are Herman Bang, Gustav Wied, William Heinesen, Martin Andersen Nexø, Piet Hein, Hans Scherfig, Klaus Rifbjerg, Dan Turèll, Tove Ditlevsen, Inger Christensen and Peter Høeg. Danish philosophy has a long tradition as part of Western philosophy. Perhaps the most influential Danish philosopher was Søren Kierkegaard, the creator of Christian existentialism."
"Danish author Hans Christian Andersen's folktale, ""The Emperor's New Clothes"", 1837, and the positioning of the statue itself in public spaces reference to how dictators and tyrants have been memorialized throughout history. A video posted to Vimeo on show of September 21, 2017s Indecline repainting a Union Pacific locomotive (UP 2519) to look like a tiger. In response to the polarizing 2016 presidential election, Indecline collaborated with artist Illma Gore created a large-scale mural out of blood that they collected from an underground blood drive in Los Angeles. The final image is a recreation of Henry Mosler's painting, ""The Creation"
"Great Heritage"", most of which are still frequently sung today. Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875) is remembered first and foremost for his fairy tales, written between 1835 and 1872 not only for children but for adults too. Among the most popular are ""The Steadfast Tin Soldier"", ""The Snow Queen"", ""The Little Mermaid"", ""Thumbelina"", ""The Little Match Girl"", and ""The Ugly Duckling"". Considered to be the father of the modern fairytale, Andersen wrote a total of 156 fairy stories, only 12 of which drew on folk tales. But Andersen also wrote a number of travel sketches, several novels including the well-received: ""The"
"to whom she appears lovely. The Fall 2009 issue of the University of San Francisco literary journal ""Switchback"" features a story by Charles Haddox, ""The Ugly Duckling"", about a girl who has her own ugly duckling experience after being chosen to play the role of Princess Camilla in her junior high school's production of the play. The Ugly Duckling (play) The Ugly Duckling is a one-act play by A.A. Milne written . The king and queen are worried because their daughter, Princess Camilla, is very plain, or rather appears to be plain because of a spell put on her at"
"Adams, David Jou, Phil Cordelli, G. L. Ford, Ellie Ga, Ryan Haley, James Hoff, Marisol Limon Martinez, Filip Marinovich, Julien Poirier, Linda Trimbath, and Genya Turovskaya. Ugly Duckling Presse Ugly Duckling Presse is an American nonprofit art and publishing collective based in Brooklyn, New York City that publishes poetry, translations, lost works, and artist's books. It was founded in 1993 by Matvei Yankelevich as a college zine before expanding to publishing other works in 1995 and taking shape as a collective in 2000. A micropress, the company uses distribution methods not traditionally seen in publishing, such as subscriptions, and gathered"
"The Dunciad The Dunciad is a landmark mock-heroic narrative poem by Alexander Pope published in three different versions at different times from 1728 to 1743. The poem celebrates a goddess Dulness and the progress of her chosen agents as they bring decay, imbecility, and tastelessness to the Kingdom of Great Britain. The first version—the ""three book"" ""Dunciad""—was published in 1728 anonymously. The second version, the Dunciad Variorum was published anonymously in 1729. The New Dunciad, in a new fourth book conceived as a sequel to the previous three, appeared in 1742, and The Dunciad in Four Books, a revised version"
"""The Money Changer and His Wife"" (1514). ""A Grotesque Old Woman"" (or ""The Ugly Duchess"") is perhaps the best-known of his works. It served as a basis for John Tenniel's depiction of the Duchess in ""Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"". It is likely a depiction of a real person with Paget's disease, though it is sometimes said to be a metaphorical portrait of the Margaret, Countess of Tyrol, who was known as ""Maultasch"", which, though literally translated ""satchel mouth"", was used to mean ""ugly woman"" or ""whore"" (because of her marital scandals). His two large triptych altarpieces ""The Holy Kinship"" or"
"Ugly Duckling (TV series) Ugly Duckling () is a 2015 Thai teen romance television series produced by GMMTV and broadcast on GMM 25. It is based on a series of novels published by Jamsai Publishing, a Thai publisher known for its romantic teen novels, and consists of four segments: ""Perfect Match"", ""Pity Girl"", ""Don't"" and ""Boy's Paradise"". Worranit Thawornwongs and Puttichai Kasetsin play the lead roles in the ""Perfect Match"" segment. The series was popular, and was Thailand's second-most searched for item in 2015, according to Google. Synopsis Junior (Worranit Thawornwongs) is a pretty and rich young miss who's living"
"and Me!"", and later produced a children's CG television series ""Ugly Duckling Junior"" which featured the same characters as the movie. The 1954 Tom and Jerry cartoon ""Downhearted Duckling"" is also based on the famous story. The tale has seen various musical adaptations. In 1914, the Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev composed a work for voice and piano based on Nina Meshcherskaya's adaptation of the tale and, in 1932, arranged the work for voice and orchestra. This was transcribed by Lev Konov in 1996, and his opera was a great success in Russia. Other musical versions include the song “The Ugly"
"and dirty, he refuses to recognize her. The tale is likely based on Andersen's youthful passion for lovely Riborg Voight, a woman who refused his marriage proposal in 1830. He met her again in 1843 when she had become a frumpy, middle-aged matron. The tale is sometimes viewed as a counterpiece to ""The Nightingale"" in its ushering out of an old love (Voight) and the welcoming in of a new one (Lind). In ""The Ugly Duckling"", an awkward and ungainly bird is ostracized by his barnyard fellows and wanders alone and unhappy until, to everyone's surprise, he matures into a"
"the story was inspired in part by Andersen's friend Jenny Lind. ""The Ugly Duckling"" became one of Andersen's best loved tales and was reprinted around the world. The tale was adapted to a variety of media. Films based on the tale include two ""Silly Symphonies"" animated shorts produced by Walt Disney called ""The Ugly Duckling"". The first was produced in 1931 in black and white, and a remake in 1939 in Technicolor. The latter film won the 1939 Academy Award for Best Short Subject (Cartoons), and was the last Silly Symphony to be made. The main difference between the Andersen"
"Ugly Duckling Presse Ugly Duckling Presse is an American nonprofit art and publishing collective based in Brooklyn, New York City that publishes poetry, translations, lost works, and artist's books. It was founded in 1993 by Matvei Yankelevich as a college zine before expanding to publishing other works in 1995 and taking shape as a collective in 2000. A micropress, the company uses distribution methods not traditionally seen in publishing, such as subscriptions, and gathered its early audience with guerrilla marketing techniques. Ugly Duckling Presse (UDP) focuses on new, international, and ""forgotten"" writers and specializes in projects that may be difficult"
"""The Ugly Duckling"" by Hans Christian Andersen tells the story of a cygnet ostracised by his fellow barnyard fowl because of his perceived homeliness. To his delight (and to the surprise of others), he matures into a graceful swan, the most beautiful bird of all. In the famous ballet ""Swan Lake"", the main character, Princess Odette and her companions are turned into swans by a wicked spell. Today, the British Monarch retains the right to ownership of all unmarked mute swans in open water, but Queen Elizabeth II only exercises her ownership on certain stretches of the Thames and its"
"with the pain of sitting on an easy chair. He does nothing at all. Immediately after him, Annius speaks. He is the natural predator for idling nobles, for he is a forger of antiquities (named for Annio di Viterbo) who teaches the nobles to value their false Roman coins above their houses and their forged Virgil manuscripts above their own clothing. He serves Dulness by teaching her servants to vaunt their stupidity with their wealth. The Dunciad The Dunciad is a landmark mock-heroic narrative poem by Alexander Pope published in three different versions at different times from 1728 to 1743."
"The Painted Skin ""The Painted Skin"" () is a short story by the Chinese writer Pu Songling collected in ""Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio"" in 1740. Literary critics have recognised it as one of the best and best-known entries in ""Strange Tales""; in particular, its textual detail and in-depth characterisation are lauded. ""The Painted Skin"" has also received numerous adaptations in popular media, especially in film. The story's original title has become a common phrase in Chinese vocabulary, ""a synonym for duplicity that wears an outwardly human face but is inwardly demonic"". Set in Shandong, the story revolves around"
"Ugly Duckling). In 2010, Garri Bardin directed a feature-length stop-motion musical of the story set to Tchaikovsky's ballet music. In 2012, a musical adaptation of the story, with ten original songs, was released by JJ’s Tunes & Tales. The album, titled “The Ugly Duckling: Story with Songs” contains both songs and spoken narration, and was released independently on CD Baby and iTunes. Examples of song titles include: Hatching of the Eggs; A Better Place; Song of the Swans; What’s the Matter with You; It’s a Big, Big World; Pretty Good Place to Live. ""GivingTales"" – in 2015 a storytelling app"
"seen as stupid. Finally, a child cries out, ""But he isn't wearing anything at all!"" The tale has been translated into over 100 languages. ""The Emperor’s New Clothes"" was first published with ""The Little Mermaid"" in Copenhagen, by C. A. Reitzel, on 7 April 1837, as the third and final installment of Andersen's ""Fairy Tales Told for Children"". The tale has been adapted to various media, and the story's title, the phrase ""The Emperor has no clothes"", and variations thereof have been adopted for use in numerous other works and as an idiom. A vain emperor who cares about nothing"
"The Emperor's New Clothes (2001 film) The Emperor's New Clothes is a 2001 film that was adapted from Simon Leys's novel ""The Death of Napoleon"". Directed by Alan Taylor, the film stars Ian Holm as Napoleon (his third performance as that person, after ""Napoleon and Love"" and ""Time Bandits"") and Eugene Lenormand, a Napoleon look-alike, Iben Hjejle as Nicole 'Pumpkin' Truchaut and Tim McInnerny as Dr. Lambert. The plot re-invents the history surrounding Napoleon Bonaparte's exile to St. Helena following his defeat at Waterloo. In 2002, it won the Audience Award for Best International Feature Film at the Florida Film"
"The Foxy Duckling The Foxy Duckling is a Merrie Melodies color cartoon short directed by Arthur Davis. It was released by Warner Bros. on August 23, 1947. An insomniac fox is having trouble sleeping, and despite his best efforts (tossing and turning, clamping his eyes shut, etc), he simply cannot fall asleep. On accident, he stumbles across a book entitled """"INSOMNIA AND ITS CURE"""", which tells him filling his pillow with duck feathers is essential for a good night's sleep. Upon the next morning, the fox heads out to capture himself a duck and soon comes across one. The duck,"
"Kunlun"" exists, and one was in progress for ""Precious Sword, Golden Hairpin"". Wang Dulu Wang Baoxiang (; 1909–1977), courtesy name Xiaoyu (), better known by his pen name Wang Dulu (), was a Chinese writer of ""wuxia"" novels. Wang is best known for his work, ""Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"", that was adapted into a successful feature film of the same title by film director Ang Lee in 2000. Wang was born in 1909 in Beijing to a poor family of Manchu background. He worked as an editor for a newspaper agency and as a clerk for a merchant association before"
"Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award The Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award is a Danish literary award established in 2010. It is awarded bi-annually to a living author whose work resembles Hans Christian Andersen. It is one of the biggest literary prizes in the world with the winner receiving (£60,000, or approximately $90,000). The winner receives a bronze sculpture ""The Ugly Duckling"" by sculptor Stine Ring Hansen. Paulo Coelho is listed for 2007 even though the award was not established until 2010. This is because in 2007 Coelho was presented with an honorary award by the city of Odense that was"
"may have been one of Andersen's own childhood incidents which was similar to that in the tale: he once recalled standing in a crowd with his mother, waiting to see King Frederick VI, and when the king made his appearance, Andersen cried out, ""Oh, he's nothing more than a human being!"" His mother then tried to silence him saying, ""Have you gone mad, child?"" Whatever the reason, Andersen thought the change would prove more satirical. ""The Emperor's New Clothes"" was first published with ""The Little Mermaid"" on 7 April 1837, by C.A. Reitzel in Copenhagen, as the third and final"
"The Ugly Duchess The Ugly Duchess (also known as A Grotesque Old Woman) is a satirical portrait painted by the Flemish artist Quentin Matsys around 1513. The painting is in oil on an oak panel, and measures 62.4 by 45.5 cm. It shows a grotesque old woman with wrinkled skin and withered breasts. She wears the aristocratic horned headdress of her youth, out of fashion by the time of the painting, and holds in her right hand a red flower, then a symbol of engagement, indicating that she is trying to attract a suitor. However, it has been described as"
"remembered first and foremost for his fairy tales, written between 1835 and 1872 not only for children but for adults too. Among the most popular are ""The Steadfast Tin Soldier"", ""The Snow Queen"", ""The Little Mermaid"", ""Thumbelina"", ""The Little Match Girl"", and ""The Ugly Duckling"". Considered to be the father of the modern fairytale, Andersen wrote a total of 156 fairy stories, only 12 of which drew on folk tales. But Andersen also wrote a number of travel sketches, several novels including the well-received: ""The Improvisatore"" (1835), a series of poems, and his autobiography ""The Fairy Tale of My Life"""
"was a ghost story with which Andersen had experimented in 1830. The third booklet contained ""The Little Mermaid"" and ""The Emperor's New Clothes"", and was published 7 April 1837. ""The Little Mermaid"" was completely Andersen's creation though influenced by De la Motte Fouqué's ""Undine"" (1811) and lore about mermaids. The tale established his international reputation. The only other tale in the third booklet was ""The Emperor's New Clothes"", which was based on a medieval Spanish story with Arab and Jewish sources. On the eve of the third installment's publication, Andersen changed the end of his tale (the Emperor simply walks"
"with the fox following closely behind. The Foxy Duckling The Foxy Duckling is a Merrie Melodies color cartoon short directed by Arthur Davis. It was released by Warner Bros. on August 23, 1947. An insomniac fox is having trouble sleeping, and despite his best efforts (tossing and turning, clamping his eyes shut, etc), he simply cannot fall asleep. On accident, he stumbles across a book entitled """"INSOMNIA AND ITS CURE"""", which tells him filling his pillow with duck feathers is essential for a good night's sleep. Upon the next morning, the fox heads out to capture himself a duck and"