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Jack Zipes’s Hans Christian Andersen: The Misunderstood Storyteller

Hans Christian Andersen is quite arguably the best-known writer of fairy tales in the world, or at least that part of the world that derives from European traditions. Jack Zipes argues that he is also the most misunderstood, an argument … Continue reading

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Hans Christian Andersen’s Fairy Tales

Elizabeth Hand wrote this review. Hans Christian Andersen — was there ever a writer of children’s stories who seems more likely to have fallen from the pages of one of his own works? The child of a shoemaker and an illiterate … Continue reading

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