His stories have inspired countless plays, ballets, and movies. Many of his stories are featured in our collection of Favorite Fairy Tales. His tales transcend age barriers, national and cultural boundaries and have been translated into more than 125 languages. Although he wrote a broad range of work, including plays, travelogues, novels, and poems, it was his fairy tales that became culturally iconic in the Western world. Hans Christian Andersen, born in Denmark in 1805, practically invented the writing of eventyrs the adventure fairy tale, or fantastic tale.
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With a skillful introduction to the genre and notes on each story by Sims, The Phantom Coach is a spectacular collection of ghostly Victorian thrills. Jacobs ("The Monkey’s Paw") will turn you white as a sheet. Edwards’s chilling story gives the collection its title, while Ambrose Bierce ("The Moonlit Road"), Elizabeth Gaskell ("The Old Nurse’s Story"), and W. The Phantom Coach includes tales by a surprising and often legendary cast, including Charles Dickens, Margaret Oliphant, Henry James, Rudyard Kipling, and Arthur Conan Doyle, as well as lost gems by forgotten masters such as Mary E. Michael Sims, whose previous Victorian collections Dracula’s Guest (vampires) and The Dead Witness (detectives) have been widely praised, has gathered twelve of the best stories about humanity’s oldest supernatural obsession. The ghost is the most enduring figure in supernatural fiction. 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Using the Stockholm Environment Institute’s model, the city could enumerate the emissions of the life cycle of 536 different products and commodities used in the Portland metropolitan area-everything from raw materials like timber and food crops, to manufactured items like office furniture and chocolate. That’s why in 2013, as the city’s planners began to develop the 2015 update to the climate plan, they started working with a new model to calculate the city’s carbon emissions profile. Portland also has long been a leader in progressive urban planning strategies, and since 2006 has been a member of C40, an international network of cities seeking innovative ways to reduce emissions. city to adopt a climate action plan, which now calls for cutting carbon emissions by 50% by 2030, and to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050. The city of Portland, Oregon, prides itself on being ahead of the curve. 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Just do your G*damn job and keep your mouth shut.” -From the book American Evita, by Christopher Anderson, p.90 – Hillary to her State Trooper body guards after one of them greeted her with “Good Morning” “Where is the G*damn f**king flag! I want the G*damn f**king flag up every morning at f**king sunrise.” -From the book Inside the White House, by Ronald Kessler, p.244 – Hillary to staff at the Arkansas Governor’s mansion on Labor Day 1991. The next president of the United States ? Mike Yeadon says COVID-19 pandemic never really happened as was claimed 4k views |