Hans Christian Andersen’s Complete Fairy Tales is a collection of works, inclunding the Little Mermaid and The Snow Queen, by the most famous Danish writer of all time. FREE AUDIOBOOK INCLUDED. Hans Christian Andersen (2 April 1805 – 4 August 1875), in Denmark usually called H.C. Andersen, was a Danish author. Although a prolific writer of plays, travelogues, novels, and poems, he is best remembered for his fairy tales. Andersen’s fairy tales, have become culturally embedded in the West’s collective consciousness, readily accessible to children, but presenting lessons of virtue and resilience in the face of adversity for mature readers as well.