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[Haugaard, Danish Journal.

[Haugaard, Erik] Andersen, Hans Christian.

Danish Journal. Special Issue Edition. 1805.1875.1975.

Copenhagen, Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 1975. 21.3 cm x 30.2 cm. 45 pages. With many black and white illustrations throughout. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in illustrated dustjacket. The illustrations on the front and back covers and the title vignettes are reproductions of paper cuts by Hans Christian Andersen. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Only very minor foxing to inside of dustjacket and some fraying to edges of dustjacket. From the reference library of Hans Christian Andersen Translator Erik Haugaard.

Includes for example the following articles: Andersen: what was he like? By Elias Bredsdorff / The emperor’s different clothes by Erik Dal / What a pity that America lies so far away from here by Erik Haugaard / Travelling by train by Hans Christian Andersen / H.C. Andersen’s House by Niels Oxenvad / Dates in the life of Hans Christian Andersen / Godfather could tell stories, cut out pictures and draw by Jan Zibrandtsen etc.

’Hans Christian Andersen was one of the most travelled men of his time. Hypochondriac, sickly, ailing, perpetually having toothache, he jogged his way through Europe, terrified by the slighest incidents, seeing robbers all over, and yet ever ready for the utmost exertions. He never travelled without a long rope with which to save himself in case of fire; and he would travel by routes not normally among those taken even by eccentric Englishmen. The first journeys (the earliest was in 1831) were partly a flight from criticism at home and partly were inspired by a longing to see something new.’– Jens Kruuse.

’Immortality is a word we use to describe a heart and a brain that cannot die. Certainly the fact we are now celebrating the hundreth anniversary of the poet’s death means that Andersen has won this final and greatest honour of all. His statue stands in Central Park and there his fairy tales are read aloud to children. Do they know that he was Danish, and does it matter? They may think him American, for the story of his life follows so closely to the American dream. He called his fairy tales his ‘gift to the world’; and the children have come to hear the song of the nightingale, a treasure which belongs to all of us, be we fishermen or emperors.’ Erik Haugaard. (Both excerpts taken from book)

 

Andersen, Danish Journal.
Andersen, Danish Journal.