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Matchless: an Illumination of Hans Christian Andersen's Classic ''The Little Match Girl''

✍ Scribed by Gregory Maguire

Publisher
HarperCollins;William Morrow
Year
2009
Tongue
English
Weight
804 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN
0061913014

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✦ Synopsis

SUMMARY: Every year, NPR asks a writer to compose an original story with a Christmas theme. In 2008, Gregory Maguire reinvented the Hans Christian Andersen classic "The Little Match Girl" for a new time and new audiences. When it was first translated from Danish and published in England in the mid-nineteenth century, audiences likely interpreted the Little Match Girlβ€²s dying visions of lights and a grandmother in heaven as metaphors of religious salvation. Maguireβ€²s new piece, entitled "Matchless," reilluminates Andersenβ€²s classic, using his storytelling magic to rekindle Andersenβ€²s original intentions, and to suggest transcendence, the permanence of spirit, and the continuity that links the living and the dead.

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A Christmas Story

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SUMMARY: Every year, NPR asks a writer to compose an original story with a Christmas theme. In 2008, Gregory Maguire reinvented the Hans Christian Andersen classic "The Little Match Girl" for a new time and new audiences. When it was first translated from Danish and published in England in the mid

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