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Hans Christian Andersen: The Misunderstood Storyteller
From: Voices
Date: 20060401
Author:Levy, Elinor
Hans Christian Andersen: The Misunderstood Storyteller, by jack Zipes. New York: Routledge, 2005.171 pages, index, $19.95 paper.
I must start with a confession: I asked to do this review because of Danny Kaye's portrayal of Hans Christian Andersen. As a child I loved the movie, and my family had the sound track on a thick black seventy-eight. Maybe that is where my love of folklore originated. I have, of course, discovered that the movie was a misrepresentation of the man, but a part of me still holds it dear.
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