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The Son of a Shoemaker

The Son of a Shoemaker

writerLinda Black

The Son of a Shoemaker is a sequence of eighteen prose poems based on the early life of Hans Christian Andersen. The poems are collaged from a fictionalised biography of Andersen, The Shoemaker’s Son, by Constance Buel Burnett, which was published by George G Harrap & Co in 1943. The text is illustrated by the author.