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

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| September 01, 2001 | Mullen, Alexandra | COPYRIGHT 2001 Foundation for Cultural Review. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

 
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 Conquered the Worm with His Magical Stories. Andersen would have liked this title, with its puff ...

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