If you class yourself as a book lover then you should definitely know who Hans Christian Andersen is. As you all know if you read my blog I have a bunch of shops around town that I go to for books and I saw this one. I knew that most of Hans Christian Andersen's stories ending unhappily and I don't usually like those sorts of stories however I thought I had to read these classics. In this book there are many different stories inside so you'll be hearing about this book for quite a while. The first story in this book is called The Wild Swans. It's about a princess called Eliza who has eleven brothers, a father and a typical evil stepmother. This evil stepmother tells stories about the King stories about his sons so he then wants nothing to do with them. Then the evil stepmother makes the brothers run away and every day the brothers turn into swans and at night back to humans. Before this happened the evil stepmother sends the princess away to live with some peasants until she's 18. When she turns 18 her father sends for her. The evil stepmother sees the princess to get her dressed and washed ready to meet the King however when she sees how beautiful the princess has grown she tries to make her ugly. That's all I'm going to tell you about the story. Considering how much detail is in the story there aren't many pages which shows how much of a good writer Hans Christian Andersen is.
I really enjoyed this book and I loved the ending and as you also know if you read my blog I used to do a part about the author which I'm going to bring back in this post. Also, sorry I haven't posted in awhile.
As I said in one one of my newer posts there are little pictures at the start of each story which I will put into my past post so here you are:
Hans Christian Andersen was born at April 2nd 1805 in Odense, Denmark and was the son of Hans Andersen and Anne Marie Andersdatter. He was an only child and he was influenced by the Grimm Brothers and William Shakespeare. He died February 17th 1856 in Paris France.
Thanks for reading and I'll see you next time I post. If you have books you want me write a review about put them in the comments and I'll get to them as soon as I can.
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