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Loading... Matchless: An Illumination of Hans Christian Andersen's Classic "The Little Match Girl" (edition 2010)by Gregory Maguire
Work InformationMatchless: A Christmas Story by Gregory Maguire
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. I've never read The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen, so I wasn't sure what to expect. I picked this book up because I've enjoyed other works by Gregory Maguire and this seemed like a quick read, which is what I was in search of at the time. I wasn't disappointed at all. The story itself is fascinating and makes you want to keep reading. It is one of those stories that awakens gratitude (or at least it should!). It was equal parts entertaining and heartbreaking. ( )
Matchless is perhaps too slim to deserve the full Christmas-book treatment, but it’s a worthy effort at creating a new story to stand alongside the classic Christmas tales of old. Is a retelling of
Entwines the classic fairy tale of the little match girl with a story of Frederik, whose mother is seamstress to the queen and who spends many evenings crafting a village in the attic of their small, cold home. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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