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She lighted another match, and then she found herself sitting under a beautiful Christmas-tree. It was larger and more beautifully decorated than the one which she had seen through the glass door at the rich merchant’s. Thousands of tapers were burning upon the green branches, and colored pictures, like those she had seen in the show-windows, looked down upon it all. The little one stretched out her hand towards them, and the match went out. The Christmas lights rose higher and higher, till they looked to her like the stars in the sky. Then she saw a star fall, leaving behind it a bright streak of fire. “Someone is dying,” thought the little girl, for her old grandmother, the only one who had ever loved her, and who was now dead, had told her that when a star falls, a soul was going up to God. The Little Match Seller Hans Christian Andersen 1846 Denmark
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She lighted another match, and then she found herself sitting under a beautiful Christmas-tree. It was larger and more beautifully decorated than the one which she had seen through the glass door at the rich merchant’s. Thousands of tapers were burning upon the green branches, and colored pictures, like those she had seen in the show-windows, looked down upon it all. The little one stretched out her hand towards them, and the match went out.

The Christmas lights rose higher and higher, till they looked to her like the stars in the sky. Then she saw a star fall, leaving behind it a bright streak of fire. “Someone is dying,” thought the little girl, for her old grandmother, the only one who had ever loved her, and who was now dead, had told her that when a star falls, a soul was going up to God.

The Little Match Seller Hans Christian Andersen 1846 Denmark

hpphoenixlament:   Harry Potter author JK Rowling wins Hans Christian Andersen award   She is the first recipient of the 500,000 kroner (£59,000) award, which was handed out on Tuesday at a ceremony in Odense, Andersen’s hometown. The prize is given to a person who can be compared with Andersen, the Danishwriter who was born in 1805 and wrote some 160 fairy tales and poems before his death in 1875   Rowling said the author of such classics as “The Little Mermaid” and the “The Ugly Duckling” had “created indestructible, eternal characters.” Rowling’s seven books about the boy wizard have sold more than 400 million copies worldwide and have been translated into many languages. Earlier this month she was named the most influential woman in Britain by the National Magazine Company.
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Harry Potter author JK Rowling wins Hans Christian Andersen award  

She is the first recipient of the 500,000 kroner (£59,000) award, which was handed out on Tuesday at a ceremony in Odense, Andersen’s hometown.

The prize is given to a person who can be compared with Andersen, the Danishwriter who was born in 1805 and wrote some 160 fairy tales and poems before his death in 1875

 

Rowling said the author of such classics as “The Little Mermaid” and the “The Ugly Duckling” had “created indestructible, eternal characters.”

Rowling’s seven books about the boy wizard have sold more than 400 million copies worldwide and have been translated into many languages.

Earlier this month she was named the most influential woman in Britain by the National Magazine Company.

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