Hans Christian Andersen: The Misunderstood Storyteller.(Book review)

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From: The Modern Language Review
Date: 20070701
Author:Christensen, Nina

Hans Christian Andersen: The Misunderstood Storyteller

Hans Christian Andersen: The Misunderstood Storyteller. By JACK ZIPES. New York and Oxford: Routledge. 2005. xvii+171 pp. $85. ISBN 978-0-415-97432-5

The subtitle of Jack Zipes' Hans Christian Andersen: The Misunderstood Storyteller indicates that the book examines the life and work of the author from a new perspective. Even though quite a number of biographies on Andersen have been published lately, one approaches the book with anticipation, knowing that Zipes is a respected scholar within the field of children's ...

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