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Reviewed on April 15, 2005
Hans Christian Andersen is best known for writing fairytales for children, but he was also a prolific writer of plays, travel books, poems, and novels. He also had a great interest in science and philosophy, although Sren Kierkegaard found his fairy tales too nave and sentimental. Andersen worked hard to cover up his early life of hardship and poverty, always trying to project a certain image o...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

