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1 day ago

New book imagines Hans Christian Andersen showing up to Charles Dickens' house

Francine Prose's novels engage readers through diverse subjects and emotional depth, exemplified in her latest work, Five Weeks in the Country.
fromThe New Yorker
6 months ago

Kate DiCamillo on the Solace of Fairy Tales

how to be brave in the face of that terror-which is a terror we all feel, not just kids. To wit, here I am, at sixty-one, going back to these stories and finding more comfort, more terror, and ever more relevance.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
7 months ago

Like a place in one of his fairytales: exploring Hans Christian Andersen's homeland in Denmark

In the mirror I'm wearing enormous golden pantaloons, but only I can see them. Children sit in a rock pool playing mermaids, and in the next room there's a talking pea in a display case, beside a towering stack of mattresses. It's the world of Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875), one of the 19th century's most beloved writers. I'm in Odense, on the island of Fyn (sometimes anglicised to Funen) in the south of Denmark,
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