The Washington Post, May 13th, 2001
HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN The Life of a Storyteller By Jackie Wullschlager Knopf. 489 pp. $30 "The Emperor's New Clothes" came this close to being just an amusing story rather than the timeless fable known worldwide. In the draft submitted to the printer by its author, Hans Christian Andersen, the tale ended with the nude emperor and his cowed subjects stuck in a conspiracy of pretending -- the ruler that he was wearing elegant robes sewn by his duplicitous tailors, the crowd that they were oohing over those same robes. But just in time Andersen sent in an inspired fix. Strike the last sentence,...
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