"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.īook Description Paperback. Wullschlager wears her learning lightly but still we are left feeling we are in the hands of an expert guide." "An extraordinarily accomplished biography, both intellectually rigorous and emotionally wise. as peculiar, fascinating and painful as any of his celebrated fairy tales." "Intensively researched and elegantly written." will encourage many readers to revisit an author who undoubtedly deserves serious critical attention." gracefully written meticulously referenced. " -Diana and Jeffrey Frank, The New Yorker "his spring, Knopf will publish a biography by Jackie Wullschlager, a writer for the London Financial Times, which may add to the few reliable studies available in English, the most notable of which is Elias Bredsdorff's. Not only is is a fuller and more comprehensive biography, but it is the first book ever to place Andersen in a contemporary European tradition and to measure him with a European yardstick." -Elias Bredsdorff, Emeritus Professor of Scandinavian Languages at Cambridge If someone had asked me a couple of months ago which biography of Andersen was the best I would immodestly have said my own work, but today I would answer that the best book is the one written by Jackie Wullschlager.
"In my view it is the best book ever written about Hans Christian Andersen.
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