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Hans Christian Andersen
Thanks to his fairy tales and stories, Hans Christian
Andersen, 1805-75, is probably the most widely read author
in the world today, but even in his own time he was read and known
from Russia in the east to America in the west. His career from the
lowest stratum of society in his native town of Odense in Funen via
his problematic adaptation to the official and bourgeois circles in
Copenhagen...
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Mark Twain
Arguably Mark Twain's greatest fiction was "Mark Twain." Several
of the characters in his novels -- Colonel Sellers, Tom Sawyer, Huck
Finn -- achieved a status beyond their mere textual existence, but
in his time and since, the image of "Mark Twain" himself is one of
the best-known reference points in America's cultural imagination...More |
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Aesop
The most noted of all fable authors is Aesop. Most believe he lived
around the time of 620 B.C. Many fables have been attributed to
Aesop, but we are uncertain how many he actually authored. Some
scholars have questioned his existence entirely.....More |
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Frank Baum
It was late when Counsellor Knapp, lost in
thought about the times of King Hans, desired to return home; and
fate so ordered it that he put on the goloshes of Fortune instead of
his own, and walked out into the East Street. Through the magic
power of the goloshes, he was at once carried back three hundred
years, to the times of King Hans, for which he had been longing when
he put them on. Therefore he immediately set his foot into the mud
and mire of the street, which in those days possessed no pavement.
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The Brothers Grimm
“I must tell you,” said she, “that to-day
is my birthday; and in honor of it I have been intrusted with a pair
of goloshes, to introduce amongst mankind. These goloshes have the
property of making every one who puts them on imagine himself in any
place he wishes, or that he exists at any period. Every wish is
fulfilled at the moment it is expressed, so that for once mankind
have the chance of being happy.”
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