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Hans Christian Andersen （18051875）was a Danish author and poet， most famous for his fairy tales. Among his best-known stories "The Snow Queen", "The Little Mermaid", "The Emperor's New Clothes" and "The Ugly Duckling". During Andersen's lifetime he was feted by royalty and acclaimed as having brought joy to children across Europe. His fairy tales have been translated into well over a hundred languages and continue to be published in "millions of copies all over the world".
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Sexual orientation His whole life has not married， Andersen's sexual orientation is a matter of controversy in academic circles.Many of his stories are interpreted as references to his sexual grief.
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themselves weavers. They gave out that they knew how to weave stuffs of the most beautiful colors and elaborate patterns. should have the wonderful property of remaining invisible to everyone who was unfit for the office he held, or who was extraordinarily simple in character.
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The two pretended weavers set up two looms, and affected to work very busily, though in reality they did nothing at all. They asked for the silk and gold thread; put both into their own knapsacks;and then continued their pretended work at the empty looms until late at night.
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Aderson says: “ I use all my feelings and thoughts to write the tales for the children.But at the same time I never forget about the adults.When I was writing a story for the children ,I always remembered their parents may listen to it beside them.
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Andersen began his writing career by writing plays and poems for a local journal. Then, in 1835, he broke into novel writing with The Improvisator. The plot of this novel is the basis of many of Andersen's works. In general, Andersen's stories are mostly about a main character who has to face many problems while he or she is pursuing happiness. Despite his success in novel writing, it was children's tales that eventually brought Hans Christ& Roses
"The Emperor’s New Clothes" was first published with "The Little Mermaid" on 7 April 1837 by C.A. Reitzel in Copenhagen as the third and final installment of the first collection of Andersen's Fairy Tales Told for Children. The first two booklets of the collection were published in May and December 1835 and met with little critical enthusiasm.Andersen waited a year before publishing the third installment of the collection. Traditional Danish tales as well as German and French folktales were regarded as a form of exotica in nineteenth century Denmark and were read aloud to select gatherings by celebrated actors of the day. Andersen’s tales eventually became a part of the repertoire and readings of "The Emperor’s New Clothes" became a specialty of and a big hit for the popular Danish actor Ludvig Phister. On 1 July 1844, the Hereditary Grand Duke Carl Alexander held a literary soiree at Ettersburg in honor of Andersen. The author was on the verge of vomiting after days of feasting and speaking various foreign languages but managed to control his body and read aloud “The Princess and the Pea”, "Little Ida's Flowers” and "The Emperor’s New Clothes"
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Born in the small town of Odense, Denmark in 1805, Hans Christian Andersen's life was not easy. His father was a sickly man and his mother washed clothing for a living. His mother wasn't highly educated, but because she was superstitious, she introduced Andersen to folklore. This encouraged his love of stories, plays, and the theater at a young age.Due to his love of literature, eventually helped him become a famous writer.
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Andersen‘s tale is based on a story from the Libro de los ejemplos(or El Conde Lucanor, 1335),a medieval Spanish collection of fifty-one cautionary tales with various sources such as Aesop(伊索） and other classical writers and Persian folktales, by Juan Manuel, Prince of Villena (1282–1348). Andersen did not know the Spanish original but read the tale in a German translation titled "So ist der Lauf de.In the source tale, a king is hoodwinked by weavers who claim to make a suit of clothes invisible to any man not the son of his presumed father; whereas Andersen altered the source tale to direct the focus on courtly pride and intellectual vanity rather than adulterous paternity.