The Little Match Girl

Name: The Little Match Girl
Brand: Findaway Voices
Availability: InStock
Author: Hans Christian Andersen
ISBN: 9781987102024

Author: Hans Christian Andersen

Narrator: Elaine Sepani

Unabridged: 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Audio Sommelier

Published: 05/31/2018

Categories: Children's Fiction, Classic Children's Stories, Historical Stories

Synopsis

The harsh realities of child poverty come to light in this short story by Danish author Hans Christian Andersen. The tale follows a barefoot girl trying to sell matchsticks on a frigid New Year’s Eve. As the night grows colder, she lights the matches for warmth and has visions of her dead grandmother. Feel the cold seep into your bones as you read this tale that has haunted readers for over a century.

About Hans Christian Andersen

Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875) originally trained as a singer and actor, but he gained fame with his fairy tales, which were not meant merely for children but for adults as well. Andersen frequently used a colloquial style that disguises the sophisticated moral teachings of his tales. Many of Andersen's fairy tales depict characters who gain happiness in life after suffering and enduring conflicts. "The Ugly Duckling" and "The Little Mermaid" are Andersen's most intimate works. A playwright and novelist as well as the author of children's tales, Andersen publications include the novels The Improvisatore and Only a Fiddler, as well as his personal memoirs, The Fairy Tale of My Life.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Peter on December 09, 2019

What a sad and melancholic fairy tale. A little girls is standing forlorn outside a building trying to sell matches. She doesn't sell anything but starts seeing beautiful things when she lights up a match. Will there be a happy ending? Well, Charles Dickens couldn't have written this story in a bett......more

Goodreads review by Nayra.Hassan on December 21, 2022

*الغِنى في الغربة وطن والفقر في الوطن غربة* فتاة الكبريت من أكثر القصص الخيالية حزنا و واقعية"تجري احداثها الحزينة في ليلة رأس السنة.. فنري تلك الطفلة: اللطيفة النحيفة الخفية حافية القدمين؛ تحاول ان تبيع الكبريت للمارة علي الرصيف و لكن لا احد يلتفت لها بالفعل *الفقر ليس عيباً لكن من الأفضل إخفاؤه*......more

Goodreads review by Bionic Jean on February 27, 2025

The Little Match Girl or in a literal translation "The little girl with the matchsticks", is a short story by the Danish author Hans Christian Andersen, which was first published in 1845. Illustration by Hans Christian Andersen's original illustrator, Vilhelm Pedersen The story starts on a bitterly c......more

Goodreads review by Imme on November 04, 2023

|| 3.0 stars || This review contains spoilers! This story is about a little girl who goes out at New Year’s Eve to sell matches to support her poor family. It’s freezing cold, but no one has bought a single match from her all day, so she knows she can’t go home yet. Not empty handed. Thus, she keeps g......more

Goodreads review by Ines on December 19, 2019

Love this little cute story, day by day a little bit less... my daughter ask me to read it together every night before bedtime, i am learning it by heart..... we have this paperback edition and she loves to look at the drawings.......more