Volume 38, Number 12 · June 27, 1991
Hard Times
By Janet Adam Smith
The Diaries of Hans Christian Andersen
selected and translated by Patricia L. Conroy, by Sven H. Rossel
University of Washington Press, 502 pp., $45.00
The Kiss of the Snow Queen: Hans Christian Andersen and Man's Redemption by Woman
by Wolfgang Lederer
University of California Press, 262 pp., $11.95 (paper)
'Hans Christian Andersen slept in this room for five weeks—which seemed to the family AGES.' So Dickens inscribed a card which he stuck on a mirror in the guest room at Gad's Hill. The readers of Andersen's diaries will easily understand why.
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