Hans Christian Andersen's Tales: The Garden Of Paradise

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From: Great Works of Literature
Date: 19920101
Author:Andersen, Hans Christian

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The Garden Of Paradise

Once there was a King's son. No one had so many and so beautiful books as he; everything that had happened in this world he could read there, and could see pictures of it all in lovely copper-plates. Of every people, and of every land he could get intelligence; but there was not a word to tell where the Garden of Paradise could be found, and it was just that of which he thought most.

His grandmother had told him, when he was quite little, but was to begin to go to school, that every flower in this Paradise Garden was a delicate cake, and ...

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