Book description
Features fantastic and eye-popping modern art--a truly novel approach to such a classic story. - A great book for art collectors and Hans Christian Anderson fans.
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I absolutely fell in love with this tragic Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale.
When I was around 8 years old, my Uncle gifted me The Classic Collection of Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales. I devoured the book and its beautiful illustrations. I still have it!
So many of Andersen’s stories are legendary, like "The Little Mermaid” and “The Snow Queen,” and are all revised nowadays through Disney with sweetened, wrapped-in-a-red-bow endings. Yet, the original tales that I read, and could not get enough of, have brutal ends that mark the realities of humanity in their extremes.
The Little Match…
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