OK, you should make a note of that in the spreadsheet, this kind of
situation is exactly why the spreadsheet is important. I don't know
which one we should use; presumably the later one. But if What The Moon
Saw is a fairy tale, then I assume Picture Book is also a fairy tale?
I think your suggestion of a short tale with a moral lesson, plus some
kind of legendary/supernatural slant, is a fine definition of a fairy
tale. Anything that is not that, can be called "Short fiction". So we
have to decide how to classify these and whether both a "fairy tale" and
"short fiction" omnibus are necessary, or if just one of them is.
On 1/18/26 5:09 PM, Hendrik Kaiber wrote:
> Actually, on further research, most of the content in /A Picture Book
> without Pictures/ is actually present in a story called "What the Moon
> Saw," which seems to been a rewriting of the older stories. I assume we
> don't want both versions, so which one do we think we should have?
>
> —Hendrik
> On Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 8:00:38 PM UTC-3 Hendrik Kaiber wrote:
>
> I put "short fiction" in the spreadsheet because I wasn't sure if
> you would prefer a collection named "Fairy Tales." I'll update the
> current entries, since I believe all of them would go into a fairy
> tales omnibus. Wikipedia lists some short stories, but all of them
> are (in my opinion) fairy tales. The classification in either short
> story or fairy tale is ultimately arbitrary, and depends on how each
> person classifies each. I consider the entries in the spreadsheet to
> be fairy tales because they mostly follow a formula of a short prose
> text with moral lessons and without much realism (exceptions can
> occur, but I think this definition works for most works of the
> genre, either by Andersen or other authors).
>
> There is also a collection of very short stories called A Picture-
> Book without Pictures <
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A_Picture-
> Book_without_Pictures_and_Other_Stories/A_Picture-
> Book_without_Pictures>, which follow several evenings ("first
> HendrikBK/hans- <
https://github.com/HendrikBK/hans->
> > christian-andersen_fairy-tales_various-translators>Â the
> correct one.
> >
> > —Hendrik
> > On Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 7:26:06 PM UTC-3 Alex Cabal
> wrote:
> >
> > OK, sure. The link you sent to your repo is broken, can you
> send a
> > new one?
> >
> > Good choice of artwork, I'll assign it.
> >
> > On 1/17/26 2:54 PM, Hendrik Kaiber wrote:
> > > For my next project I would to propose a collection of fairy
> > tales by
> > > Hans Christian Andersen (surprised no one did it before).
> There is
> > > already a spreadsheet <
https://docs.google.com/
> spreadsheets/ <
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/>
> > <
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>
standardebooks.org/ <
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> > > john-william-waterhouse/a-mermaid>Â painting is a good choice,
> > because of
> > > "The Little Mermaid," one of his most famous story.
> > >
> > > Do you think this is project is viable?
> > >
> > > All of the transcriptions and scan links are in the
> spreadsheet.
> > >
> > > Empty repo <
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