It's Perfectly True: And Other Stories

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Harcourt, Brace, 1938 - Fiction - 305 pages
It's Perfectly True!/Thousands of Years From Now/The Old House/The Butterfly/The Little Mermaid/The Shepherdess and the Chimney-Sweep/The Ugly Duckling/The Tinder-Box/The Story of a Mother/The Shirt Collar/The Happy Family/The Little Match-Girl/The Steadfast Tin Soldier/The Princess on the Pea/The Red Shoes/The Emperor's New Clothes/The Darning Needle/The Nightingale/The Snow Queen/The Jumpers/The Shadow/The Swineherd/Little Claus and Big Claus/The Fir Tree/The Top and the Ball/Thumbelian/Numbskull Jack/The Wild Swans.

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ITS PERFECTLY TRUE
3
THE BUTTERFLY
24
THE SHEPHERDESS AND THE CHIMNEYSWEEP
57
Copyright

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About the author (1938)

Hans Christian Andersen, one of the best known figures in literature, is best know for combining traditional folk tales with his own great imagination to produce fairy tales known to most children today. The Danish writer was born in the slums of Odense. Although he was raised in poverty, he eventually attended Copenhagen University. Although Andersen wrote poems, plays and books, he is best known for his Fairy Tales and Other Stories, written between 1835 and 1872. This work includes such famous tales as The Emperor's New Clothes, Little Ugly Duckling, The Tinderbox, Little Claus and Big Claus, Princess and the Pea, The Snow Queen, The Little Mermaid, The Nightingale, The Story of a Mother and The Swineherd. Andersen's greatest work is still influential today, helping mold some of the works of writers ranging from Charles Dickens to Oscar Wilde and inspiring many of the works of Disney and other motion pictures. Andersen, who traveled greatly during his life, died in his home in Rolighed on August 4, 1875.

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