A biography of the famous Danish writer of fairy tales, interspersed with excerpts from his stories.

"Tove Ditlevsen's autobiographical trilogy about her troubled life in Copenhagen"--

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 biography by Danish scholar Jens Andersen is essential...

Chronicles the life of Peter Freuchen, a wildly eccentric Dane whose insatiable curiosity and unquenchable thirst for adventure, guided by ideals remarkably ahead of his time, took him from the twilight years of Arctic exploration to the Danish underground during World War II.

The author describes her life on a coffee plantation in Kenya for seventeen years before returning to Denmark in 1931 to write.

"Through an enchanted conversation with a young girl in a horse-drawn coach, Hans Christian Andersen shares his life’s struggles, dreams, and triumphs—whose threads can be found woven into his greatest stories. He tells her about the “fairy tale of his life” and how the son of a shoemaker became a celebrated writer."--Amazon.com.

A simple biography of the nineteenth-century Danish author known for his fairy tales.

"Volume 3 of Tove Ditlevsen's autobiographical Copenhagen Trilogy"--