Matchless : An Illumination of Hans Christian Andersen's Classic "The Little Match Girl" Condition:Well Read Culture and Imperialism

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Matchless : An Illumination of Hans Christian Andersen's Classic "The Little Match Girl" Condition:Well Read Culture and ImperialismEvery year, NPR asks a writer to compose an original story with a Christmas theme. In 2008, Gregory Maguire reinvented the Hans Christian Andersen classic "The Little Match Girl" for a new time and new audiences. When it was first translated from Danish and published in England in the mid nineteenth century, audiences likely interpreted the Little Match Girls dying visions of lights and a grandmother in heaven as metaphors of religious salvation.