Although the famous stories like The Match-girl or The Little Mermaid sound beautiful when repeated or summarized in everyday life, I was quite disappointed when reading them. Maybe it was my expectations that made them feel very flat, but even worse were the other stories that I didn't know in advance. I felt in many stories the main character had an aim and often also reached this aim by selfish means. So these are in no means general fairytales with moral teaching, but quite the opposite. In a way, it is refreshing, but sometimes the stories also lack logic. Too often I also feel they are not capturing despite the imagination. ( )