| Title | : | The Ugly Duckling |
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| Author | : | Hans Christian Andersen |
| Release | : | 2024-04-15 |
| Kind | : | audiobook |
| Genre | : | Fiction |
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| 1 | The Ugly Duckling | Hans Christian Andersen |
| "The Ugly Duckling" is a literary fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen. Andersen lavished great care on this story, spending a year perfecting it. It was first published in 1844. A mother duck hatches six pretty little ducklings. A seventh bird is hatched. He is homely. The other ducks abuse him. He runs away. He is given a home by an old woman. Her cat and hen do not like him. He runs away again. Winter comes and a kind farmer gives him a home. The little bird almost dies. Spring comes. The "ugly duckling" has grown into a beautiful swan. The other swans welcome him as their own. They bow to him. He is happy for the first time in his life. The moral of the tale: "it does not matter if you were born in a duck yard if you have lain in a swan's egg." Andersen considered the story "a reflection of my own life." |
