The Snow Queen - FULL Audio Book - by Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) Audible is a website with thousands of audiobooks to choose from, you can sign up for a free trial here https://goo.gl/FaEETV SUBSCRIBE to https://www.youtube.com/user/GreenAudioBooks - The Snow Queen (Danish: Snedronningen) is a fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen (1805--1875). The tale was first published in 1845, and centers on the struggle between good and evil as experienced by a little boy and girl, Kai and Gerda. The story is one of Andersen's longest. It is regularly included in selected tales and collections of his work and is frequently reprinted in illustrated storybook editions for children. The tale has been adapted in various media including animated film and television drama. - The Snow Queen is a tale told in seven 'stories' (Danish: Historier): About the Mirror and its Pieces A Little Boy and a Little Girl The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Knew Magic The Prince and Princess The Little Robber Girl The Lapp Woman and the Finn Woman What Happened at the Snow Queen's Palace and What happened Afterwards - An evil "troll" ("actually the devil himself")[1] makes a magic mirror that has the power to distort the appearance of things reflected in it. It fails to reflect all the good and beautiful aspects of people and things while it magnifies all the bad and ugly aspects so that they look even worse than they really are. The devil teaches a "devil school," and the devil and his pupils delight in taking the mirror throughout the world to distort everyone and everything. They enjoy how the mirror makes the loveliest landscapes look like "boiled spinach". They then want to carry the mirror into heaven with the idea of making fools of the angels and God, but the higher they lift it, the more the mirror grins and shakes with delight. It shakes so much that it slips from their grasp and falls back to earth where it shatters into billions of pieces — some no larger than a grain of sand. These splinters are blown around and get into people's hearts and eyes, making their hearts frozen like blocks of ice and their eyes like the troll-mirror itself, only seeing the bad and ugly in people and things. Years later, a little boy, Kai, and a little girl, Gerda, live next door to each other in the garrets of buildings with adjoining roofs in a large city. One could get from Kai's to Gerda's home just by stepping over the gutters of each building. The two families grow vegetables and roses in window boxes placed on the gutters. Kai and Gerda have a window-box garden to play in, and they become devoted to each other as playmates. Kai's grandmother tells the children about the Snow Queen, who is ruler over the snowflakes, that look like bees — that is why they are called "snow bees". As bees have a queen, so do the snow bees, and she is seen where the snowflakes cluster the most. Looking out of his frosted window, Kai, one winter, sees the Snow Queen, who beckons him to come with her. Kai draws back in fear from the window. By the following spring, Gerda has learned a song that she sings to Kai: Where the roses deck the flowery vale, there, infant Jesus thee we hail! Because roses adorn the window box garden, Gerda is always reminded of her love for Kai by the sight of roses. It was on a pleasant summer's day that splinters of the troll-mirror get into Kai's heart and eyes while he and Gerda are looking at a picture book in their window-box garden. Kai's personality changes: he becomes cruel and aggressive. He destroys their window-box garden, he makes fun of his grandmother, and he no longer cares about Gerda, since all of them now appear bad and ugly to him. The only beautiful and perfect things to him now are the tiny snowflakes that he sees through a magnifying glass... - If you enjoyed listening to "The Snow Queen - FULL Audio Book - by Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875)" please rate, comment and subscribe to GreenAudioBooks, We really appreciate it :) Thanks for viewing The Snow Queen - FULL Audio Book - by Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) We hope you enjoyed The Snow Queen - FULL Audio Book - by Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) Audio is courtesy of Librivox. For more Librivox audio book recordings please refer to http://librivox.org

• published: 12 Feb 2013
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