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Hans Christian Andersen (/ ˈ æ n d ər s ən / AN-dər-sən, Danish: [ˈhænˀs ˈkʰʁestjæn ˈɑnɐsn̩] ⓘ; 2 April 1805 – 4 August 1875) was a Danish author.Although a prolific writer of plays, travelogues, novels, and poems, he is best remembered for his literary fairy tales. Andersen's fairy tales, consisting of 156 stories across nine volumes, have been translated into more than 125 languages. They have become embedded in Western collective consciousness, accessible to children ...
Hans Christian Andersen (born April 2, 1805, Odense, near Copenhagen, Denmark—died August 4, 1875, Copenhagen) was a Danish master of the literary fairy tale whose stories achieved wide renown. He is also the author of plays, novels, poems, travel books, and several autobiographies.While many of those works are almost unknown outside Denmark, his fairy tales are among the most frequently translated works in all of literary history.. Andersen, who was born to poor parents, fought the rigid ...
Hans Christian Andersen, (born April 2, 1805, Odense, near Copenhagen, Den.—died Aug. 4, 1875, Copenhagen), Danish writer of fairy tales. Though reared in poverty, he received a university education. In his many collections of tales, published 1835–72, he broke with literary tradition and employed the idioms and constructions of spoken ...
Jan 11, 2023 · Prolific Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) is one of the most beloved children’s writers to have ever lived. Known for his fantastical fairy tales that feature ducklings, mermaids, emperors and queens, his stories also commonly explore universal themes such as poverty, charity and inequality.
Hans Christian Andersen (often referred to in Scandinavia as H.C. Andersen) was a Danish author and poet. Although a prolific writer of plays, travelogues, novels, and poems, Andersen is best remembered for his fairy tales. Andersen's popularity is not limited to children; his stories — called eventyr, or "fairy-tales" — express themes that transcend age and nationality.
Here, in a one-room house, on April 2, 1805, Hans Christian Andersen was born. During the early years of his childhood his grandmother told him old Danish folk tales and legends, and he acted out plays in a homemade puppet theater. When Hans Christian was 11, his father died. The boy was left virtually alone because his mother and grandmother ...
Hans Christian Andersen (2 April 1805 to 4 August 1875) A Short Biographical Introduction. Hans Christian Andersen was a product of two towns, two social environments, two worlds and two ages. Both as a man and as a writer he thus continually developed and changed, but was also in constant dialogue with himself and even at times at war with himself. Thus his social rise provides the direct and indirect motif in many of his tales, novels and plays, both as a productive source in his search ...
Sep 11, 2017 · Hans Christian Andersen was born in the slums of Odense. His father was a cobbler (shoemaker) and his mother worked as a washerwoman. His mother was also uneducated and superstitious. Andersen received very little education, but his fascination with fairy tales inspired him to compose his own stories and arrange puppet shows, on a theater his ...
Manuscripts. On the Danish pages we have published manuscripts for three texts of Hans Christian Andersen: the famous fairy tales " The Little Mermaid " and " The Emperor's New Clothes " and the poem " Phantasie ved Vesterhavet " (1830). The manuscript for the poem "Denmark, My Native Land" ("I Danmark er jeg født, der har jeg hjemme") is ...
The most beautiful stories of Andersen The best fairy tales →. Grimmstories.com. The devil with the three golden hairs A fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm →. The valiant little tailor A fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm →. The brother and sister A fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm →. Grimms' fairy tales.
