Andersen’s Fairy Tales

The Emperor loves clothes so much he spends his fortune on them. Then two weavers promise a fabric only the wise can see—and set to work at empty looms.

In these nineteenth-century tales, Hans Christian Andersen turns everyday vanity and fear into strange, vivid adventures. The collection opens in a bustling capital, where an Emperor’s passion for fine clothes makes him easy prey for two clever impostors. Their invisible fabric seems to offer a way to judge every courtier—but soon the Emperor himself must face the question he is too afraid to ask aloud. How long can a whole city pretend to see what isn’t there?

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