Complete and unabridged. Thirty-two short pieces in which the moon, looking in at a poor artist's window, tells what she saw the night before in India, Sweden, Pompeii, a Paris theatre and a graveyard. Andersen wrote them as sketches rather than tales, and they are the least known and most concentrated of his work. Each is a page long and several are among the best things he did. Its 65 original illustrations have been carefully restored and coloured for this edition.

Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) was a Danish writer. He published his first volume of fairy tales in 1835 while living in Copenhagen. His works include the collections known as Andersen's Fairy Tales and the novel O. T.