COPENHAGEN, Denmark — For years, the somber fairy tale about a lonely candle who wanted to be lit dwelt in oblivion at the bottom of a box in Denmark's National Archives. Its recent discovery has sent ...

Image Credit: ACG Travel Videos. Some places truly feel like they’re straight out of a fairy tale. Others take direct inspiration from books and films to create a fantasy world for all to enjoy. For ...

The H.C. Andersen House uses the author’s playful storytelling style as a lens to view his life and work. To design a new museum about Hans Christian Andersen, known for fairy tales like The Little ...

A historian in Denmark may have discovered Hans Christian Andersen’s first fairy tale ever. The story, called “The Tallow Candle,” was discovered at the bottom of an old box in Denmark’s national ...

If you don’t know Hans Christian Andersen from such fairy tales as The Ugly Duckling, The Princess and the Pea, and Thumbelina, surely you know him from the Disney films his works inspired, like The ...

The H.C. Andersen House is open to the public on a limited basis in the writer’s hometown of Odense, Denmark. The H.C. Andersen House in Odense, Denmark. Photo: Laerke Beck Johansen. Artnet News ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Michele Herrmann reports on hotels, attractions and food/drink news. Hans Christian Andersen is well-represented in many locations ...

Although adults may misremember them as light children's stories, the 19th-century fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen commonly deal with themes of loneliness, forced journeys far from home, and ...

Whether it’s rolling dice to cast a Shakespeare play on the day of the performance or presenting a new work riffing on a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, messing with the classics is an important ...

Sir Roger Moore and some of today’s top actors have teamed up to create a new educational app called Giving Tales. GivingTales features short animated versions of Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tales ...

There was once a good-wife who longed for a child, and so went to visit an old Witch, who gave her a barleycorn to plant in a flower-pot, promising that something would come of it. As soon as the ...