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Hans Christian Andersen: The Life of a Storyteller.(Review)

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From: New Criterion
Date: 20010901
Author:Mullen, Alexandra

 
Jackie Wullschlager 
Hans Christian Andersen: 
The Life of a Storyteller. 
Alfred A. Knopf, 496 pages, $30 

More than a hundred years after his death, Hans Christian Andersen can still lay claim to being a world-famous writer, but the world he's famous in is the Lilliputian one of the nursery. The title of a publication from the Royal Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs aims to tell us all that non-Danes need to know: Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1874): The Writer Everybody Reads and Loves, and Nobody Knows: The Real-Life Fairy Tale of the Shoemakers Son from Odense who ...

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