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Hans Christian Andersen   /hɑns krˈɪstʃən ˈændərsən/   Listen
Hans Christian Andersen

noun
1.
A Danish author remembered for his fairy stories (1805-1875).  Synonym: Andersen.






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"Hans christian andersen" Quotes from Famous Books



... if I can find any wood dry enough to light. If I can't—— Well, you remember the little match-seller in Hans Christian Andersen's story, who warmed her fingers with her own matches until they were all gone and she ...
— More Tish • Mary Roberts Rinehart

... Home was here related, that in its graceful and fantastic freaks of fancy might have been imagined by the Danish poet, Hans Christian Andersen. In its combination of simple pathos and genial drollery, however, it was a story that no other could by possibility have told than the great English Humorist. If there was something really akin to the genius of Andersen, in the notion of the Cricket with its shrill, sharp, piercing ...
— Charles Dickens as a Reader • Charles Kent



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