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Hans Christian Andersen's Tales: The Red Shoes
From: Great Works of Literature
Date: 19920101
Author:Andersen, Hans Christian
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The Red Shoes
There was once a little girl, - a very nice, pretty little girl. But in summer she had to go barefoot, because she was poor, and in winter she wore thick wooden shoes, so that her little instep became quite red, altogether red.
In the middle of the village lived an old shoemaker's wife; she sat and sewed, as well as she could, a pair of little shoes, of old strips of red cloth; they were clumsy enough, but well meant, and the little girl was to have them. The little girl's name was Karen.
On the day when her mother was buried she received the ...
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