Word: thumbelina
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...