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Hans Christian Andersen, The Life of a Storyteller

Hans Christian Andersen, The Life of a Storyteller

by Jackie Wullschlager

  • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
  • 2002
  • PAPER
  • 496 PAGES

The acclaimed biography of Copenhagen's most famous denizen, who rose from his lot as a washerwoman's son to dine with princes and literary lions -- yet who died alone and unhappy. Wullschlager, an arts critic at the Financial Times, has written a thorough, and thoroughly grown-up, treatment of Andersen.  (DMK13, $21.00)


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