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The Little Match Girl

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The Little Match Girl
9.99 €
"The Girl with Matches" is the most poignant of the stories told by G. H. Andersen. It is about a poor little orphan girl forced to sell matches to passers-by on the street. On the last day of the old year, the girl does not manage to sell a single match, for the whole day she was not given a penny, and the little girl does not dare to return home, in a cold room in the attic, where she is sure to be beaten by her father. Undressed, barefoot, she sits down behind the ledge of the house directly on the snow and begins to light unsold matches-candles one after another. In the glow of the flame, the girl sees beautiful pictures that have never been in her life: a hot stove, a festive table with a Christmas goose, a magnificent Christmas tree with thousands of candles... With these imaginary pictures the girl and ascends to Heaven - "where there is no cold, no hunger, no fear"....
The artist Lyudmila Pipchenko, who created the drawings especially for this edition, managed to convey this pinching New Year's story. Light tears of compassion come to your throat when you open the book....
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