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On the 200th anniversary of his birth, a new biography of the much-loved children's author, Hans Christian Andersen Hans Christian Andersen was a storyteller for children of all ages, but he was more than that. He was a critical journalist with great enthusiasm for science, an existential thinker, an observant travel book writer, a passionate novelist, a deft paper cut-out artist, a neurotic hypochondriac, and a man with intense but frustrated sexual desires. This startling and immensely readable, definitive new biography by Danish scholar Jens Andersen is essential to a full understanding of the man whose writing has influenced the lives of readers young and old for centuries. Jens Andersen sheds brilliant new light on Hans Christian Andersen's writings and on the writer whose own life had many aspects of the fairytale. Like some of the memorable characters he created, Andersen grew up in miserable and impoverished circumstances. He later propagated myths about his life and family, but this new biography uncovers much about this man that has never been revealed before.
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"'This biography is the first to investigate its subject curious sexual proclivities. That might seem mere prurience, but the topic is deeply entwined with Andersen's art... For readers who have known him only through the fairy stories, it helps to make this new biography unusually illuminating' John Carey, Sunday Times lead review 'In this revelatory biography, Jens Andersen shades in the darker areas, from the family scandals and social humiliations at the start of his life to the egotism, eccentricity, malice and morphine addiction at its end... This biography pays tribute to Andersen's originality' Sunday Telegraph"
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Jens Andersen has a master's degree in Danish literature and is a literary critic and the author of several major biographies of Danish writers. He received wide acclaim for this biography, which sold in many countries.
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- PublisherGerald Duckworth & Co Ltd
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 0715633619
- ISBN 13 9780715633618
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages600
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