Paul Binding,
Bishop’s Castle, Shropshire,
August 2016
HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN has won lasting fame and popularity for his fairy tales, but he also wrote novels, plays, travelogues, autobiographies, and tales for an adult readership.
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Jacket art: The Grindelwald Glacier by Thomas Fearnley, oil on canvas, 1838, National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo (detail)
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