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Sixteen tales including "Little Claus and Big Claus," "Father's Always Right," and "The Goblin and the Grocer."
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- Author
- Hans Christian Andersen
- First published
- 1846
- Pages
- 250
- Publisher
- Gyldendal, Nordisk forlag, Audiofy/Naxos, E.P. Dutton & co., inc.
- Editions
- 298
- Language
- Portuguese, yid, dan, fry
- ISBN
- 9780809595075
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“A SOLDIER came marching down the road-left, right! left, right!”
Hans Christian Andersen was born in Odense, Denmark, to a father who claimed to be related to nobility. After school, he worked as a weaver's apprentice and as a tailor's assistant. At 14, he moved to Copenhagen to be an actor, and was accepted into the Royal Danish Theatre. His career ended when his voice changed, and he decided to become a writer. He published his first story, The Ghost at Palnatoke's Grave, in 1822. An acquaintance paid all expenses to send him to grammar school in Slagelse. He also attended school at Elsinore until 1827. He later admitted that his school years were the darkest and bitterest of his life. After school, Andersen resumed writing. In 1829, he started to see h
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