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From: Scandinavian Review
Date: 20040401
Author:Anonymous
The Stories of Hans Christian Andersen Selected and translated by Diana Crone Frank and Jeffrey Frank Original illustrations by Whelm Pedersen and Lorenz Frolich Houghton Mifflin Company, New York, N.Y., 2003 304 pages, hardcover $27.00
Long revered in Europe, Great Britain and the United States, Andersen is known to the English-speaking world mostly through older translations and films that may be less than faithful to the original tales. The Franks' translations, by being true to the author's fresh, colloquial Danish, claims to give modern readers the essential Andersen. The book contains ...
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