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  1. The Tallow Candle
    The Tallow CandleBook by Hans Christian Andersen
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    • "The Tallow Candle" (Danish: Tællelyset) is a 700-word literary fairytale by Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875). It was written in the 1820s, making it one of his earliest works and his first known work in the fairytale genre, but its existence was apparently unknown to scholars or the public for almost two centuries. A copy of the manuscript w… See more

    Plot

    A tallow candle, whose parents are a sheep and a melting pot, becomes more and more disheartened as it cannot … See more

    Original titleTællelyset
    Originally publishedJanuary 1, 1820
    GenreShort Stories · Classics · Childrens
    Discovery

    The manuscript was discovered in late 2012 in a suitcase with documents belonging to the Plum family in the local branch of the Danish National Archives in Funen, Denmark. The first people to come across the … See more

    Commentaries and criticism

    Andersen scholars agree that the work is not of the same literary quality as his later tales, and that it has many similarities with other writings from his time at the Latinate schools in Slagelse and Elsinore. It was dedicated t… See more

     
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