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...WILD SWAN, by Monica Stirling. A tender and touching biography of Master Storyteller Hans Christian Andersen, who lived to be 70 and was still seeing life as a fairy story more magical than any he wrote...
...WILD SWAN, by Monica Stirling. A tender and touching biography of Master Storyteller Hans Christian Andersen, who lived to be 70, and was still seeing life as a fairy story more magical than any he wrote...
...Danish town of Odense, all the signposts carry an extra arm. It points the way to Andersens Hus, where in 1805 an ugly duckling named Hans Christian Andersen was born. The world today needs no introduction to this cobbler's son whose fairy stories, published in dozens of tongues, will last as long as there are children to hear them. Andersen did not write them for children, or for money or fame, although the stories brought him both. He wrote them for himself, and Novelist Monica Stirling's tender biography tells...
Gangly Youth. The young Andersen saw life as a fairy story more magical than any he wrote. Beneath the Odense River, he knew, lay China, a fantasy kingdom that surfaces in Andersen's The Nightingale. His father let him dream. "No matter what the boy wants to be," he told his wife, "if it is the silliest thing in the world, let him have his own way." At 14, and gangly as a stork, Hans Christian stowed his toy theater, a loaf of bread and 13 rigsdaler into his knapsack and went to Copenhagen...
Last Tales. All the marvelous stories -The Ugly Duckling, The Ice Maiden, Thumbelina, The Emperor's New Clothes-burst out like dreams, unbidden, from a talent that did not appreciate itself. Even while reciting his tales on demand to charmed royal circles all over Europe, Andersen waited hopefully for the time when his novels, not very good, and his poetry and plays, only a little better, would get the same acclaim. But that was not to be. And the time came when the last fairy story had been written. "How beautiful life is," said Andersen, dying...