Hans Christian Andersen: A New Life - Softcover

Andersen, Jens

Softcover

ISBN 10: 158567737X ISBN 13: 9781585677375

Publisher: Overlook Pr, 2006

Synopsis

A portrait published to coincide with the two hundredth anniversary of the writer's birth evaluates his role as a critical journalist and supporter of the scientific community, citing his travel writings, his achievements as a cut-paper artist, and his struggles with hypochondria. Reprint.

About this title

Review:

"'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"

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Overlook Pr
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 158567737X
• ISBN 13: 9781585677375
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 624