Hans Christian Andersen (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Rumer Godden
- First Published: 1954
- Time of Work: 1805–1875
- Setting: Denmark and Western Europe
- Principal Characters: Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Marie Andersen, Hans Andersen, Riborg Voigt, Jenny Lind, Jonas Collin, Edvard Collin, Henrietta Wulff, Hans Christian Ørsted, Simon Meisling, Charles Dickens
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Authors or writers, Nineteenth century, Alienation, Storytelling, Denmark or Danish people, Biography, Fables
- Locales: Europe, Denmark
Form and Content
Rumer Godden’s Hans Christian Andersen: A Great Life in Brief encompasses its subject’s life from his birth in 1805 into very lowly circumstances to his death in 1875 as a highly acclaimed writer. Godden concentrates on the first thirty years of Andersen’s life, depicting in vivid detail Andersen’s childhood in Odense, Denmark. Andersen’s father was a moody cobbler who lamented his lowly social status, and his mother was a religious, superstitious woman who, after the death of her husband in 1816, had to provide for the household by taking in...
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