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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... More
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Mark Twain
The conversation on this topic was only
interrupted for a moment by the arrival of a newspaper, which did
not, however, contain much worth reading, and while it is still
going on we will pay a visit to the ante-room, in which cloaks,
sticks, and goloshes were carefully placed. Here sat two maidens,
one young, and the other old, as if they had come and were waiting
to accompany their mistresses home;
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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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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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