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Hans Christian Andersen : a biography
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- Creator
- by R. Nisbet Bain
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- London, Lawrence and Bullen; New York, Dodd, Mead and Company, 1895
- Physical Details
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- xii, 461 pages illustrations, portraits 23 cm
- OCLC
- on1416370399
- "Andersen and his translators": pages 448-452
- Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
- Microfilm. Madison, WI : Univeristy of Wisconsin Library, 1970. 1 microfilm reel : negative ; 35 mm.
- Gift Jean Hersholt 1-29-53.
- Odense -- The ugly duckling at Copenhagen -- The "tyrant" Meisling -- Early works -- "Agnete" ; Italy ; "Improvisations" -- The first fairy tales ; More novels -- "The mulatto" and "The Moorish girl" ; Andersen in the East and on the Danube -- Progress of the fairy tales ; Dramatic triumphs and disasters ; "The long poet" a European celebrity -- Andersen in England -- "Ahasuerus" ; War ; In Sweden -- Andersen's religious philosophy ; "To be, or not to be" ; The cholera -- The "histories" ; Fresh excursions ; Loss of friends -- In Spain -- Dark days ; At home ; Growing old -- The last days of "The good old poet" -- Appendices: I. Extract fro Andersen's letter of apology to his rector, Simon Meisling ; II. Extracts from Andersen's earliest printed work : "Fodrejse til amager" ; III. Extracts from Andersen's firs fairy tale : "Dödningen" (The corpse), the ororiginalf "The traveling companion," with Herr Brandes's comments ; IV. Andersen and this translators