Unknown, H. Andersen

Previously unknown tale by Hans Christian Andersen found in the hometown of the writer - Odense on Funen island, wrote in Thursday Danish newspaper Politiken.



Danish historian found a handwritten copy of the tale "the Tallow candle" (Taellelyset) on the bottom of the box archival papers in early October, however, scientists were not in a hurry to announce the opening of publicly decided to conduct a thorough review of the text.





The tale tells the story of the candle for a long time did not recognize their inner beauty, and then realized it when ignited. May, H. K. Andersen wrote it while studying in 1820-ies, and in this case it is his first tale.





"This is a sensational discovery: in part because it must first Andersen, and also because it proves that she began to write in the genre of fairy tale in my youth," said one of Denmark's leading experts on Einar Andersen Stig Ascher. He participated in the examination of the document and there is no doubt that the author of the text is H. K. Andersen.





Poetic fragments of authorship Danish storyteller periodically find who starred in them apartments. However, such a large text in recent times found back in the mid-1920's, when the lecturer Hans Brix discovered memoirs of H. K. Andersen in the Royal library in Copenhagen.





Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) is the author of hundreds of world-famous fairy tales, including "the little Mermaid", "the Ugly duckling", "Flint". His work has been translated into 125 languages, giving on this option, only the Bible.

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