![]() ![]() It was reprinted on 18 December 1849 in Fairy Tales and again, on 15 December 1862 in the first volume of Fairy Tales and Stories. The tale was critically well received, and furthered Andersen's success and popularity. ![]() The volume included " The Angel", " The Sweethearts or, The Top and the Ball", and " The Ugly Duckling". Reitzel in Copenhagen on 11 December 1843 in New Fairy Tales. The real nightingale learns of the Emperor's condition and returns to the palace whereupon Death is so moved by the nightingale's song that he allows the Emperor to live.Īccording to Andersen's date book for 1843, "The Nightingale" was composed on 11 and 12 October 1843, and "began in Tivoli", an amusement park and pleasure garden with Chinese motifs in Copenhagen that opened in the summer of 1843. The mechanical bird eventually breaks down and the Emperor is taken deathly ill a few years later. When the Emperor is given a bejeweled mechanical bird he loses interest in the real nightingale, who returns to the forest. When he orders the nightingale brought to him, a kitchen maid (the only one at court who knows of its whereabouts) leads the court to a nearby forest, where the nightingale agrees to appear at court it remains as the Emperor's favorite. The Emperor of China learns that one of the most beautiful things in his empire is the song of the nightingale. ![]()
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