Gregory Maguire

Matchless (eBook, ePUB)

An Illumination of Hans Christian Andersen's Classic "The Little Match Girl"

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The beloved author of Wicked reimagines Hans Christian Andersen's classic story "The Little Match Girl" for modern readers in this charming, beautifully illustrated gift book

Each year, National Public Radio asks a writer to compose a story with a Christmas theme. In 2008, Gregory Maguire offered a new twist on a classic tale, reinventing the Hans Christian Andersen classic "The Little Match Girl."

When the story was first translated from Danish and published in England in the mid-nineteenth century, the match girl's dying visions of lights and a grandmother in heaven were often interpreted as metaphors of religious salvation. In Matchless, Maguire adds a different dimension to the story, intertwining the match girl's tale with that of a young boy, Frederik, whose own yearnings are the catalyst for a better future for himself and his family. Maguire uses his storytelling magic to rekindle Andersen's original intentions and to suggest transcendence, the permanence of spirit, and the continuity that links the living and the dead.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins
• Seitenzahl: 112
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Oktober 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780061965975
• Artikelnr.: 38003290

Autorenporträt

Gregory Maguire is the New York Times bestselling author of the Wicked Years, a series that includes Wickedthe beloved classic that is the basis for the blockbuster Tony Awardwinning Broadway musical of the same name and the major motion pictureSon of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz. His series Another Day continues the story of Oz with The Brides of Maracoor, The Oracle of Maracoor, and The Witch of Maracoor, and his other novels include A Wild Winter Swan, Hiddensee, After Alice, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, Lost, and Mirror Mirror. He lives in New England and France.