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HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN.(Review)
From: Contemporary Review
Date: 20010401
Author:KNIGHT, JOHN
Hans Christian Andersen. The Life of a Storyteller. Jackie Wullschlager. Allen Lane, The Penguin Press. [pound]20.00. 505 Pages. ISBN 0-713-99325-1.
On New Year's Day 1835 Hans Christian Andersen wrote, 'I am now starting on some "fairy tales for children"'. Three months later, he wrote again 'with a mixture of pride and irony' to say that the tales were now completed, that publication was imminent and that his readers would call them 'the work of my immortality!' Ever the hypochondriac, he, nevertheless, felt that he wouldn't live long enough to 'enjoy the experience in this ...
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