The Little Mermaid
by Hans Christian Andersen
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books, Fantasy, and Fiction.
After saving a prince from drowning, a mermaid princess embraces a life of extreme selfsacrifice to win his love and gain an immortal soul. Over a century after its first publication, Hans Christian Andersen's "The Little Mermaid" persists as one of the world's most enduring works of fantasy for children.This edition combines the worldfamous tran...
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books, Fantasy, and Fiction.
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Soman Chainani
“You look at The Little Mermaid movie. Arielle should die brutally in that movie because she’s an idiot, a complete idiot. To read the original book, where she dies at the end, suddenly made sense.”
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