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HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN: THE LIFE OF A STORYTELLER.(books)(Review)

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From: Harper's Magazine
Date: 20010901
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The Danish island of the Fyn (thatched villages, austere white churches, wild ponies) traditionally sends its bright teenagers to Copenhagen. The composer Carl Nielsen got to the city in 1884, at the age of nineteen, immediately stopping a policeman to ask where it was they paid you to play the fiddle. Hans Christian Andersen arrived in 1819, fourteen years old, stagestruck, aspiring to be an actor, ballet dancer, playwright, poet, singer, and novelist. His education up to that point had been so rudimentary that a kindly patron enrolled him in grammar school. In HANS CHRISTIAN ...

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