Children's Books Special: The phantom's kiss The Danish author Hans Christian Andersen soared above his personal failings and humble background to create some of the most masterly stories ever written. As the bicentennial of his birth approaches, Paul Binding assesses his haunting and resonant work

From: The Independent on Sunday | Date: November 28, 2004| Author: Paul Binding | Copyright information

One of Hans Christian Andersen's strangest and strongest stories is "The Shadow" (l847). While staying in a southern European city, a scholar from northern Europe loses his shadow. Many years later he re- finds it, for it comes to call on him in the guise of a prosperous middle-aged gentleman. A disquieting reversal of roles follows, which culminates in the shadow taking its former owner, now poor and ill, on a curative holiday. It insists however that they present themselves to the outside w...

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