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FAIRY TALES HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN ; BOOK OF A LIFETIME
From: The Independent - London
Date: 20061215
Author:Maggie Gee
My love for Hans Christian Andersen is inextricably linked to my love for my mother, who read his stories to me at night from the beautiful, battered, red-cloth edition of her own childhood. It was illustrated by Heath Robinson in his early Art Nouveau phase: long- necked storks, jewel-encrusted mechanical nightingales, slender young women with great cumulonimbuses of hair framing rebellious, characterful faces.
I do not suppose it was her own book, as my mother was the youngest of seven children in a working-class household, and all her possessions were hand-me-downs. But she hovers above ...
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