The Princess and the Pea

"The Princess and the Pea"
Short story by Hans Christian Andersen
1911 Illustration by Edmund Dulac
Text available at Wikisource
Original titlePrinsessen på Ærten
TranslatorCharles Boner
CountryDenmark
LanguageDanish
Genre(s)Literary fairy tale
Publication
Published inTales, Told for Children. First Collection. First Booklet. 1835.
Publication typeFairy tale collection
PublisherC.A. Reitzel
Media typePrint
Publication date8 May 1835
Published in English1846 in A Danish Story-Book

"The Princess and the Pea" (Danish: Prinsessen på Ærten, lit.'The Princess on the Pea')[1] is a literary fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen about a princess who is tested to become the wife to a lonely prince. The tale was first published with three others by Andersen in a cheap booklet on 8 May 1835 in Copenhagen by C. A. Reitzel.

The tale is classified in the Aarne–Thompson–Uther Index as ATU 704, "The Princess and the Pea".[2]

  1. ^ Tatar (2008), pp. 70–77
  2. ^ Haase, Donald, ed. (2008). The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Folktales and Fairy Tales. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 798.