Matchless : An Illumination of Hans Christian Andersen's Classic "The Little Match Girl" Condition:Well Read Introduced by Margaret Atwood

Introduced by Margaret Atwood

the gossip escalates into a full-blown scandal that irrevocably changes Griet's life

Winner of the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award and the New York Society Library Book Award

among ordained Buddhist women

Author: Kam Chuen Lam

Matchless : An Illumination of Hans Christian Andersen's Classic "The Little Match Girl" Condition:Well Read Introduced by Margaret AtwoodEvery year, NPR asks a writer to compose an original story with a Christmas theme. In 2008, Gregory Maguire reinvented the Hans Christian Andersen classic "The Little Match Girl" for a new time and new audiences. When it was first translated from Danish and published in England in the mid nineteenth century, audiences likely interpreted the Little Match Girls dying visions of lights and a grandmother in heaven as metaphors of religious salvation.