The Little Match Girl
by Hans Christian Anderson
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Hans Christian Anderson
Andersen was born in Odense, Denmark, in 1805. He was the son of a sickly 22-year-old shoemaker and his wife. The entire family lived and slept in a single tiny room.
Andersen displayed imagination even as a young boy. He made himself a small toy-theatre and sat at home making clothes for his puppets, and reading all the plays that he could . As a boy, Anderson loved literature. He memorized Shakespeare plays and recited them using his wooden dolls as actors.
