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My life is a lovely story, happy and full of incident. If, when I was a boy, and went forth into the world poor and friendless, a good fairy had met me and said, "Choose now thy own course through life, and the object for which thou wilt strive, and then, according to the development of thy mind, and as reason requires, I will guide and defend thee to its attainment," my fate could not, even then, have been directed more happily, more prudently, or better. The history of my life will say to the world what it says to me-There is a loving God, who directs all things for the best. My native land, Denmark, is a poetical land, full of popular traditions, old songs, and an eventful history, which has become bound up with that of Sweden and Norway. The Danish islands are possessed of beautiful beech woods, and corn and clover fields: they resemble gardens on a great scale. Upon one of these green islands, Funen, stands Odense, the place of my birth. Odense is called after the pagan god Odin, who, as tradition states, lived here: this place is the capital of the province, and lies twenty-two Danish miles from Copenhagen.

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Book category Books in English Biography & True Stories Biography: general Biography: literary

• Full title: True Story of My Life
• Author: Hans Christian Andersen
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 192
• EAN: 9781421841731
• ISBN: 9781421841731
• ID: 08413169
• Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society
• Weight: 404 g
• Dimensions: 148 × 224 × 18 mm
• Date of publishing: 15. June 2007

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