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Andersen Corporation and its affiliates make up the largest window and door manufacturer in North America. [5] Andersen Corporation and its subsidiaries manufacture and market window and door products under the names Andersen, Renewal by Andersen, MQ, and Heritage. Andersen has manufacturing facilities in the United States, Canada, and Italy.
Andersen Press is a British book publishing company. It was founded in 1976 by Klaus Flugge , and was named after Hans Christian Andersen "because it is easier to pronounce and spell than Flugge". [ 1 ]
Hans Christian Andersen in the garden of "Roligheden" near Copenhagen, in 1869.. This is a list of published works by Hans Christian Andersen.The list has been supplemented with a few important posthumous editions of his works; the year given in each entry refers to the first Danish edition.
Hans Christian Andersen (/ ˈ æ n d ər s ən / AN-dər-sən; Danish: [ˈhænˀs ˈkʰʁestjæn ˈɑnɐsn̩] ⓘ; 2 April 1805 – 4 August 1875) was a Danish author.Although a prolific writer of plays, travelogues, novels, and poems, he is best remembered for his literary fairy tales.
Of Andersen's many tales of transformation, "The Ugly Duckling" has gained the greatest universal appeal. Thirty years after its publication, the Spectator wrote that the tale was – like Solomon's proverbs – "in everyone's mouth" and the tale was one of those "happy arrows that hit the bull's eye."
The Small Faces 1967 song "Tin Soldier" opens with the lyric "I am a little tin soldier that wants to jump into your fire", and appears to have been influenced by the Andersen story. In 1971, the Japanese anime anthology series Andersen Monogatari made an episode adaptation. [citation needed]
"The Wild Swans" (Danish: De vilde svaner) is a literary fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen about a princess who rescues her 11 brothers from a spell cast by an evil queen. The tale was first published on 2 October 1838 in Andersen's Fairy Tales Told for Children. New Collection.