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Children around the world know stories like "The Little Mermaid" "The Princess and the Pea" and "The Emperor's New Clothes". The colourful 1 from the stories made us laugh and cry throughout our childhood.
The stories are written by the 2 writer Hans Christian Andersen. He was born in a poor family in Denmark, on April 2, 1805. His childhood was not 3. His father was a shoemaker and his mother was a washerwoman. He 4 little education. As a child he was very 5 and tall, and was always laughed at for being feminine(女性化的).
In 1816, his father died and Andersen was 6 to go out to work. 7 the age of 14, Andersen moved to Copenhagen to start a job as a singer and actor. He worked there for several years until he had to leave the theatre when he 8 his voice.
9 Andersen went to a grammar school and began to publish stories. They 10 out in a large number.
Because Andersen lived a(n) 11 life, he tried to make people 12 in his stories. He wrote because he didn't want children to have a 13 childhood as he did. The works made Andersen famous all over the world, but he was still a(n) 14 man. He never married and his friends were the people who paid for his works. Andersen passed 15 on August 4, 1875. His home is now a museum and thousands of people visit it every year.
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