The Little Match Girl The Little Match Girl

The Little Match Girl

New Year's Eve Story

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Publisher Description

The Little Match Girl (Danish: Den Lille Pige med Svovlstikkerne, meaning "The little girl with the matchsticks") is a short story by Danish poet and author Hans Christian Andersen. The story, about a dying child's dreams and hope, was first published in 1845.

On a cold New Year's Eve, a poor, young girl tries to sell matches in the street. She is already shivering from cold and early hypothermia, and she is walking barefoot having lost her two large slippers that had belonged to her mother. Still, she is too afraid to go home, because her father will beat her for not selling any matches, and also as the many cracks in their shack can't keep out the cold wind. The girl takes shelter in a corner formed by two house projected further out into street...

  • GENRE
    Fiction & Literature
    RELEASED
    2018
    14 November
    LANGUAGE
    EN
    English
    LENGTH
    22
    Pages
    PUBLISHER
    Andrii Iesypenko
    SELLER
    Andrii Iesypenko
    SIZE
    14.4
    MB

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