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Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales First Series

By Hans Christian Andersen

2020-10-27 21:17:47

Excerpt from Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales The Hans Andersen' Fairy Tales will be read in schools and homes as long as there are children who love to read. As a story-teller for children the author has no rival in power to enlist the imagi nation an ... Read more
Excerpt from Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales The Hans Andersen' Fairy Tales will be read in schools and homes as long as there are children who love to read. As a story-teller for children the author has no rival in power to enlist the imagi nation and carry it along natural, healthful lines. The power of his tales to charm and elevate runs like a living thread through whatever he writes. In the two books in which they are here presented they have met the tests and held an undiminish ing popularity among the best children's books They are recognized as standards, and as juvenile writings come to be more carefully standardized, their place in permanent literature will grow wider and more secure. A few children's authors will be ranked among the Immortals, and Hans Andersen is one of them. Less

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File size1132.176 KB
Print pages586
PublisherPublic Domain Book
LanguageEnglish
ISBN978-1445508863
Hans Christian Andersen (2 April 1805 – 4 August 1875), in Denmark usually called H.C. Andersen, was a Danish author. Although a prolific writer of plays, travelogues, novels, and poems, he is best ...

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