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The Emperor's New Clothes

Author: Hans Christian Andersen Year: 1837 Length: 264 characters Difficulty: medium Public domain

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The large city which he inhabited was very gay, and was daily visited by numerous foreigners. One day, there came, amongst the rest, a couple of impostors, who gave themselves out as weavers, and pretended that they could weave the most beautiful stuff imaginable.

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Hans Christian Andersen published The Emperor's New Clothes in Copenhagen in April 1837, in the same booklet as The Little Mermaid. He took the plot from a Spanish story in the medieval collection El Conde Lucanor, which he read in a German version. The Danish title is Kejserens nye Klæder. Andersen wrote about one hundred and fifty six tales, and this one gave several languages a phrase for public pretence.

About this text

Hans Christian Andersen published The Emperor's New Clothes in Copenhagen in April 1837, in the same booklet as The Little Mermaid. He took the plot from a Spanish story in the medieval collection El Conde Lucanor, which he read in a German version. The Danish title is Kejserens nye Klæder. Andersen wrote about one hundred and fifty six tales, and this one gave several languages a phrase for public pretence.

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Two sentences with clauses tucked inside them, a calm exercise in comma placement at a middle pace.

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