The complete online text of True Story of My Life by Hans Christian Andersen.

The Danish author Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) enjoyed fame in his own lifetime as a novelist, dramatist, and poet, but his fairy tales are his great contribution to world literature. Hans Christian Andersen was born on April 2, 1805, in Odense, D...

During his lifetime, Hans Christian Andersen was well known in both Europe and the United States for his novels, fairy tales, and stories, as well as for his literary travel books and autobiography. Some of his poems and plays were also translated into G...

Hans Christian Andersen, recognized as one of the masters of the fairy-tale genre, based much of his work on his own life. "Recollections of childhood and youth," wrote Reginald Spink in Hans Christian Andersen and His World, "sometimes idealized and tra...

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The victim? We don't really . . . didn't really know her at all Something disturbs me. Wakes me. Pitch black. I listen. Outside. Banging. I get up. Move towards the window. It stops. Silence. I go back to bed. It starts again. I...