Quotes from book
The Story of a Mother

Hans Christian Andersen Original title Matka (Danish, 1847)

"The Story of a Mother" is a story by the Danish poet, travel writer, short story writer and novelist Hans Christian Andersen . The tale was first published December 1847. The story has been made into films several times, and also adapted into an animated film using the stop-motion puppet technique.


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“Death walks faster than the wind and never returns what he has taken.”

Fairy Tales (1835)
Source: The Story of a Mother

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