Andersen\'s initial attempts at writing Fairy tales were revisions of stories that he heard as a child.
The collection comprises nine tales, including "The Tinderbox", "The Princ.
More stories, completing the first volume, were published in 1837. "fantastic tales").
In 1835, Andersen published the first two installments of his Fairy Tales (Danish Eventyr ; lit.
Initially his original Fairy tales were not met with recognition, due partly to the difficulty of translating them.
Andersen\'s initial attempts at writing Fairy tales were revisions of stories that he heard as a child