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"What
kind of books should I read to my son,
so he can become a successful scientist like you?" a woman asked Albert
Einstein.
"Fairy tales," Einstein responed without hesitation.
"Fine, but what else should I read to him after that?" the mother
asked.
"More fairy tales," Einstein stated.
"And after that?"
"Even more fairy tales."
Hans Christian
Andersen is one of the immortals of world literature. The fairy tales he wrote,
such as "The Little Mermaid", "The Snow Queen", "The
Ugly Duckling" and "The Emperor's New Clothes", are remarkable
for their sense of fantasy, power of description and acute sensitivity, and
they are like no other writers before or since. Unlike the Brothers Grimm, who
collected and retold folklore, Andersen adopted the most ancient literary form
of the fairy tale and the folktale distilled them into a genre that was
uniquely his own.
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Hans Christian Andersen links:
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Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales Online
Hans Christian Andersen 2005 - English
Dansk
The Hans Christian Andersen Center - English Dansk
The Danish Royal
Library - Hans Christian Andersen
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