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The Ugly Duckling

by Hans Christian Andersen, Johannes Larsen & R. P. Keigwin

  • First published:
  • 18th century
  • Languages: Danish, English, French, Japanese, Polish, Spanish
  • Content type: FictionJuvenile

Description

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It was a beautiful summer day. How beautiful the countryside was in summer! Among the reeds of a sunny little pond was a duck, sitting on a nest full of eggs. On the banks of a canal on a hot summer's day, while the other ducks were fishing not far away, sat a tired-out, white-feathered mother duck, who huffed and puffed and quacked and clucked............

Provenance

Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Ancient religions, animism, and ritual, Legendary beings and transformations, and Mythology, folklore, and sacred legends.

  • Legendary beings and transformations

    Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary and openlibrary-historical matched “Fairies”.

    • “Fairies”· via Open Library
  • Mythology, folklore, and sacred legends

    Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary and openlibrary-historical matched “Fairy tales”, “Folklore”, “Legends”, and 2 additional term(s). Retained metadata contains “Fairy tales” in the subject metadata, “Folklore” in the subject metadata, “Legends” in the subject metadata, and 2 additional metadata match(es).

    • “Fairy tales”· via Open Library
    • “Folklore”· via Open Library
    • “Legends”· via Open Library
    • “Mythology”· via Open Library
    • “Tales”· via Open Library
    • “Fairy tales”· in subject
  • Ancient religions, animism, and ritual

    Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary-historical matched “Animism”.

    • “Animism”· via Open Library

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 122 editions; 3 cataloged here.

Ugly Duckling in Signed English

June 1974ClercEnglish
  • 9780913580295
  • 0913580295
Borrowable

Open Library record

1969Rand McNallyEnglish—No ebook

Open Library record

1800Shepard, Clark and BrownEnglish—No ebook

Subjects

49 subject headings

Identifiers & provenance

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Cataloging notes

  • Open Library reports 122 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
  • Open Library reports 2 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
  • Open Library reports 3 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
Catalog id
openlibrary-work:OL15155002W
Edition coverage
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