Byline: Merle Rubin
HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN: THE LIFE OF A STORYTELLER By Jackie Wullschlager Alfred A. Knopf 489 pp., $30
Almost two centuries on," notes Jackie Wullschlager in her wonderfully wise and sympathetic biography of Hans Christian Andersen, "it is hard to imagine the impact on a child in the 1830s who opened an obscure little volume and read the following first lines: 'A soldier was marching along the high road: Left, right! Left, right! He had his knapsack ...
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