![]() In Hans Christian Andersen: A Great Life in Brief, Godden captures poignantly the affection Hans feels for his native land as well as. It is an interesting sideline for a gifted writer - and a successful one. This Study Guide consists of approximately 9 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Hans Christian Andersen. And the identification of Andersen with the lovely city he adored comes through the pages of his story. People who built their ideas of Andersen on the picture will have to revise the facts, but the essence is somehow there. It was his own incredible faith in his own star that held him to the path, that demanded faith and help from others, that scoffed at social and professional barriers when recurrent failure and disaster would have sent a lesser man home, defeated. There was little to feed this faith, but she had the courage to let him invest his few coins in his dream and go to Copenhagen. Hans Christian Andersen was the son of a dreamer, a shoemaker who wasn't even a good shoemaker, in a small Danish hamlet, and of a mother who provided sustenance for the family and lived in her faith in her great ungainly lout of a son. ![]() ![]() An utterly charming title in a new series, Great Lives in Brief, which traces the story of ""poor boy makes good"" with perceptive and sensitive awareness of the facets of personality rather than the step by step progress. ![]()
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