Hans Christian Andersen
The Life of a Story Teller
Wullschlager, Jackie
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BOOK SUMMARY
Beloved by generations of children and adults around the world for tales such as "The Ugly Duckling" and "The Emperor's New Clothes," Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) revolutionized children's literature. Although others before him had collected and re
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Beloved by generations of children and adults around the world for tales such as "The Ugly Duckling" and "The Emperor's New Clothes," Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) revolutionized children's literature. Although others before him had collected and retold folk stories and fairy tales, Andersen was the first to create the stories himself, instilling a previously stilted genre with new humor, wisdom, and pathos.
Drawing on letters, diaries, and other original sources (many never before translated from the Danish), Wullschlager shows in this compelling, extensively researched biography how Andersen's writingsdarker and more diverse than previously recognizedreflected the complexities of his life, a far cry from the "happily ever after" of a fairy tale. As we follow in his footsteps from Golden Age Copenhagen to the princely courts of Germany and the villas of southern Italy, Andersen becomes a figure every bit as fascinating as a character from one of his storiesa gawky, self-pitying, and desperate man, but also one of the most gifted storytellers the world has ever known.
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AUTHOR BIO
Jackie Wullschlager is a literary critic and European arts correspondent for the Financial Times in London. She is the author of Inventing Wonderland: The Lives and Fantasies of Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, J. M. Barrie, Kenneth Grahame and A. A. Milne.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Map of Andersen's Denmark, c. 1850
Map of Andersen's Europe, c. 1850
Introduction: Life Stories
1. The Country
2. Master Comedy-Player, 1812-1819
3. The City, 1819-1822
4. Aladdin at School, 1822-1827
5. Fantasies, 1827-1831
6. My Time Belongs to the Heart, 1831-1833
7. Italy, 1833-1835
8. First Fairy Tales, 1835
9. Walking on Knives, 1836-1837
10. Le Poète, C'est Moi! 1837-1840
11. I Belong to the World, 1840-1843
12. Jenny, 1843-1844
13. Winter's Tales, 1844-1845
14. The Princes' Poet, 1845-1846
15. The Shadow, 1846-1847
16. Lion of London, 1847
17. Between the Wars, 1848-1851
18. Weimar Revisited, 1851-1856
19. Dickens, 1856-1857
20. Experiments, 1858-1859
21. Kiss of the Muse, 1860-1865
22. Aladdin's Palace of the Present, 1865-1869
23. So Great a Love of Life, 1869-1875
Sources
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0226917479
ISBN(13-digit): 9780226917474
Dewey Decimal: 839.8/136
Library of Congress: 2002018010
Book Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 489
Paper Weight (lb): 1.55
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