The emperor's new clothes
by Hans Christian Andersen, Eve Tharlet, Jeffrey Stewart Timmins & Stephanie True Peters
- First published:
- 20th century
- Languages: English, Korean, Spanish
- Content type: FictionJuvenile
YOU MIGHT EVEN SAY I'M NOSY. Once upon a time there was a vain emperor who loved beautiful clothes more than anything else. Many years ago there lived an Emperor who was so fond of clothes that he spent all his money on being finely dressed.
Provenance
Why this book is in the catalog
Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Mythology, folklore, and sacred legends.
Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary matched “Fairy tales”. Retained metadata contains “Fairy tales” in the subject metadata, “Folklore” in the subject metadata, and “Tales” in the subject metadata.
- “Fairy tales”· via Open Library
- “Fairy tales”· in subject
- “Folklore”· in subject
- “Tales”· in subject
Membership records how this book met the catalog’s discovery criteria — relevance to a tradition, not a judgment of the book’s claims.
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Editions
Open Library reports 52 editions; 1 cataloged here.
| Edition | Date | Publisher | Language | ISBN | Access | Links |
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Andersen's The Emperor's new clothes | 1981 | Sharon Publications | English |
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Subjects
- Fiction
- Juvenile fiction
- Fairy tales
- Children's fiction
- Children's stories
- Translations into English
- Classics
- Spanish language materials
- Children's stories, Danish
- Pride and vanity
- Picture books
- Deception
- Non-Classifiable
- Statesmen
- Kings, queens, rulers, etc., fiction
- Clothing and dress
- Aristocracy (Social class)
- Behavior, fiction
- Emperors
- Fairy tales, adaptations
- Children's Books/Ages 4-8 Fiction
- Korean language materials
- Danish Fairy tales
- Tailors
- Fairy Tales & Folklore - General
- Comic and Graphic Books
- Fairy Tales & Folklore - Single Title
- Classic Fairy Tales
- Clothing and dress, fiction
- Children's 4-8
- Children: Preschool
- Polyglot texts, selections, quotations
- Tailors, fiction
Identifiers & provenance
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Identifiers
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- OCLC
- Open Library work
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Cataloging notes
- Open Library reports 52 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
- Catalog id
- openlibrary-work:OL15138675W
- Edition coverage
- Multi source partial
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