She points out, for example, that, of all of Andersen's major tales, The Snow Queen is ``the most free from ill fortune, sorrow, unkind chance'' and that its protagonists ``make their own luck, good or bad, as they go'' and that it is the ``only great classic fairy tale in which every positive character is a girl or woman. The famously gripping narrative, of tender-hearted Gerda's epic quest to rescue her friend Kay from the frozen realm of the Snow Queen, is respectfully and insightfully introduced by Lewis. Lewis's commanding translation of this Andersen classic rings with nobility even as it maintains a colloquial jauntiness.
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