Hans Christian Andersen Bibliography - 1840s

1840s

• Mulatten (The Mulatto). Original romantic drama, published at the author's expense, 1840. (2nd imprint one month later, also 1840, C.A. Reitzel Publishers).
• En Comedie i det Grønne, Vaudeville i een Akt efter det gamle Lystspil: "Skuespilleren imod sin Villie" (An open-air comedy; vaudeville in one act after the old ballad opera: "Actor against his Will", appeared as no. 124 of Det Kongelige Theaters Repertoire, 6th part, 1840.
• Maurerpigen (The Moorish Girl). Original tragedy in five acts, published at the author's expense, 1840.
• Eventyr, fortalte for Børn. - Ny Samling. Tredie Hefte (Fairy-tales told to the children. - New collection. Third booklet) ("Ole Lukoie", "The Rose Elf", "The Swineherd", "The Buckwheat"), C.A. Reitzel Publishers, 1842 (appeared 20 December 1841).
• A Poet's Bazaar ), C.A. Reitzel Publishers, 1842.
• Nye Eventyr (New fairy-tales) ("The Angel", "The Nightingale", "The Sweethearts", "The Ugly Duckling"). C.A. Reitzel Publishers, 1843.
• Kongen drømmer (The king dreams). Original romantic drama in one act (anon.). C.A. Reitzel Publishers, 1844.
• Nye Eventyr. - Anden Samling: Grantræet - Sneedronningen, (New fairy-tales. - Second collection: The Fir Tree - The Snow Queen) C.A. Reitzel Publishers, 1845 (appeared 21 December 1844).
• Lykkens Blomst (The flower of happiness). Magic comedy in two acts,C.A. Reitzel Publishers, 1845.
• Nye Eventyr. - Tredie Samling (New fairy-tales. - Third collection) ("The Elf Mound", "The Red Shoes", "The Jumpers", "The Shepherdess and the Chimney Sweep", "Holger Danske"), C.A. Reitzel Publishers, 1845.
• Liden Kirsten (Little Kirsten), original romantic ballad opera in one act, published at the author's expense, 1846.
• Digte, gamle og nye (Poems old and new), C.A. Reitzel Publishers, 1847 (appeared 26 December 1846).
• Das Märchen meines Lebens ohne Dichtung (The Fairy Tale of My Life), autobiography, printed as vols. I and II of Andersen's Gesammelte Werke - according to the contract planned to comprise 30 volumes, but with later supplements the work grew to a total of 50 volumes - which began to appear in 1847; Carl B. Lorck Publishers, Leipzig. The Danish original manuscript was first published by Helge Topsøe-Jensen: Mit eget Eventyr uden Digtning), Nyt Nordisk Forlag/Arnold Busck Publishers, Copenhagen 1942.
• Nye Eventyr. - Andet Bind. Første Samling (New fairy-tales. - Second volume. First collection) ("The Old Street Lamp", "The Neighbouring Families", "The Darning Needle", "Little Tuk", "The Shadow), C.A. Reitzel Publishers, 1847.
• Ahasverus, C.A. Reitzel Publishers, 1848 (appeared 16 December 1847).
• A Christmas Greeting to My English Friends (five new stories published for the first time. See below: Nye Eventyr (New fairy-tales). Also contains "The Old Street Lamp" and "The Shadow", which had already been published in Danish), translated by Charles Beckwith Lohmeyer. Richard Bentley, London, 1847.
• Nye Eventyr. - Andet Bind. Anden Samling (New fairy-tales. - Second volume. Second collection) ("The Old House", "The Drop of Water", "The Little Match Girl", "The Happy Family", "The Story of a Mother", "The Shirt Collar"), C.A. Reitzel Publishers, 1848.
• The Two Baronesses (novel; first published in England), translated by Charles Beckwith Lohmeyer. Richard Bentley, London, 1848.
• De to Baronesser (Danish ed. of The Two Baronesses). Novel in three parts, C.A. Reitzel Publishers, 1848.
• Kunstens Dannevirke (The Dannevirke of art). Prelude at the centenary celebrations of the Royal Danish Theatre in 1848,C.A. Reitzel Publishers, 1848.
• Brylluppet ved Como-Søen (The wedding at Lake Como). Opera in three acts. The material taken from some chapters in Manzoni's novel "I promessi sposi". C.A. Reitzel Publishers, 1849.
• 6 Characteerstykker componerede som Studier for Pianoforte (6 character studies composed for pianoforte), by J.P.E. Hartmann, booklets 1-2, opus 50 (with introductory verses by Hans Christian Andersen for each piano composition). C.C. Lose & Delbanco, Copenhagen, 1849.
• H.C. Andersen's Eventyr (Hans Christian Andersen's fairy-tales). With 125 illustrations after the original drawings by Vilhelm Pedersen, woodcuts by Ed. Kretzschmar, C.A. Reitzel Publishers, 1850 (appeared in five booklets from August to December 1849. First illustrated book edition in Denmark..