Hans Christian Andersen

Condition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9780140283204 Author(s): Jackie Wullschläger Format: Paperback Language: English Year: 2001 Edition: 1st Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Pages: 552

Description: The definitive life, re-issued to coincide with the extensive celebrations building up to mark the bicentenary of Hans Christian Andersen's birth in 2005The first English language biographer to have returned to the original Danish sources, Wullshlager creates a fascinating picture of Andersen as a deeply troubled man, as far from Danny Kaye's all-singing version as it is possible to imagine. Desperately sensitive, sexually confused and socially awkward, Andersen found grace and acceptance through the creation of a distinct and beguiling literary world, becoming, as was once said of Tolkien, 'the creative equivalent of a people'. Wullschlager's achievement is to demonstrate the unity of his troubled life and and the soaring achievement of his work. He appears in this biography more various and more flawed, but also more convincing and more impressive, than ever before.

BUYER OFFERS: We are a retail store with set pricing and unfortunately we can\t fulfil any requests to sell items for less than the listed price.