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| “Dance on thy red shoes, till thou art pale and cold, and till thy body shrivels to a skeleton.” |
| —The Red Shoes |
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| 1805–75, Danish poet, novelist, and writer of fairy tales. His sense of fantasy, power of description, and acute sensitivity contributed to his mastery of the genre. Among his many widely beloved stories are “The Fir-Tree,” “The Little Match Girl,” “The Ugly Duckling,” “The Snow Queen,” “The Little Mermaid,” and “The Red Shoes.”—continue at Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright © 2002 Columbia University Press. (See also: Introductory Note from the Harvard Classics.) |
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Pronunciation:   n´d r-sn from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. |
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Written for children in the local Danish idiom, these 20 tales have become part of world folklore. From the Harvard Classics, Vol. XVII, Part 3.
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