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Hans Christian Andersen هانس کریسشن اندِرسِن دوم آپریل ۱۸۰۵ در جزیره فونِن واقع در دانمارک متولد شد. او در یک خانواده فقیر رشد کرد. پدرش کفشساز و مادرش خانه دار بود. با این که وضعیت مالی خوبی نداشتند، هانس به خوشی زندگی میکرد. در بچگی پدرش برای او داستانهای زیادی تعریف میکرد اما در سن ۱۴ سالگی پدرش را از دست داد و از آن پس، وی زندگی سختی را گذراند. مادرش مجبور شد برای امرار معاش و ادامه زندگی، به رختشویی در خانه های مردم مشغول شود.
حرفه هانس نوشتن داستانهای کودکانه بود. از آثار مهم او میتوان به داستانهای The Little Match Girl (دختر کبریت فروش)، The Ugly Duckling (اردک بچه زشت) {که به زندگی خودش مرتبط هست}، The Emperor’s New Clothes (لباس جدید پادشاه)، The Little Mermaid (پری دریایی کوچولو) The Nightingale (بلبل)، The Snow Queen (ملکه برفی) و … اشاره کرد.
مشخصات کتاب
- نام کتاب: The Red Shoes
- نویسنده: Hans Christian Andersen
- سطح: ۱
- انتشارات: Beijing Foreign Language Audio-Visual Publishing House
The Red Shoes
Contents
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Please Login or Register to see the link.CHAPTER 1 | A Poor Little Girl
A little girl named Karen lived with her mother.
She was a small and weak-looking girl. In summer she never had any shoes because she was very poor.
In winter she had to wear a pair of heavy wooden shoes. These shoes always made her feet hurt. But she didn’t have anything else to wear. An old shoemaker in the village felt sorry for her and made a pair of red shoes for her.
They weren’t very good shoes, but they made her very happy. Unfortunately, the little girl’s mother died soon after. Her mother’s funeral was the first time she wore her new shoes.
Karen was walking behind her mother’s coffin. Just then a large carriage passed by.
An old lady in the carriage saw the little girl. She immediately felt sorry for her. To the church minister she said, “Give her to me. I will raise and take care of her.” Karen thought it was all because of the red shoes. But the old lady said, “Those shoes are terrible. Throw them out.”
Karen went to live with the old lady.
Every day, she dressed and ate well.
She learned many things. She became a very pretty girl. One day, the queen was traveling with her daughter.
All of the village people crowded around the nearby castle to see them.
Karen was there, too. Through a window, she could see the princess.
She was dressed in white and wore a beautiful pair of red shoes.
Then, Karen remembered her old red shoes. Karen grew older and it was time for her to be confirmed. She needed some new clothes and shoes for this.
In a shop, Karen found some red shoes like the princess’s. But she needed to wear black shoes.
The old lady had very poor sight.
She did not know that the shoes were red, and bought them.
Karen wore them to her confirmation.
Everyone was quite shocked to see her shoes.
During her confirmation, Karen only thought about her pretty red shoes.
Later that day, the old lady heard about the color of her shoes from a neighbor.
“Karen! It was very bad of you to wear red shoes to church. You must always wear black shoes.” she scolded.
The next Sunday, Karen looked at her black shoes and then at her red shoes.
She put on her red ones.
Karen and the old lady walked to church along a dusty road.
Outside the church door, there was an old soldier standing.
“Shall I dust your shoes for you?” he asked them.
“Yes, please do so,” they replied.
The old soldier dusted them and said to Karen, “What pretty dancing shoes! Be careful when you dance!”
Then he hit the bottom of her shoes with his hand. After church, Karen started to get into the carriage.
Just at that moment, the old soldier said to her again, “What pretty dancing shoes!”
When she heard that, she danced a few steps. Then something very strange happened.
She couldn’t stop dancing.
She danced all the way around the church. The coachman grabbed her and put her in the carriage.
Her feet continued to dance in the carriage.
She even kicked the old lady.
At last they got the shoes off and put them away in the cupboard.
But Karen loved those shoes.
Please Login or Register to see the link.CHAPTER 2 | The Evil Shoes
Sometime later, the old lady became very sick.
Many people said she could not live.
She needed a lot of care.
Karen was the best person to do this.
She took good care of her for a while.
One day, she received an invitation to a ball.
“A ball!” thought Karen. “I would love to go,”
But then she thought of the old lady.
I must stay here.”
Soon after she changed her mind.
“But she’s going to die anyway.
I’m going to the ball,”
decided the selfish girl.
She got dressed and put on her red dancing shoes. Karen went to the ball.
She danced and danced. Then the shoes started to do strange things.
The shoes took Karen out into the street and out of the town.
She danced into a dark forest.
She tried to stop, but she couldn’t.
Then, she heard a voice, “They are such pretty dancing shoes!”
It was the old soldier.
She became extremely frightened. She wanted to throw her shoes off. But now it was too late.
She danced for days and for nights.
She could never stop to rest. Karen danced toward to the church door.
At that moment, she saw an angel.
He was dressed in white and held a big sword.
“Dance, you wicked girl,” he said.
“Proud people will see you.
They will learn from your mistakes.”
“Please have mercy on me,” Karen begged.
Karen didn’t hear the angel reply.
The shoes danced her out of the churchyard.
She danced on and on.
She came to a small, lonely house.
It was an executioner’s house.
She called out, “Please cut off my feet.
They are wearing red dancing shoes.”
She told him about all her sins and then the man cut off her feet.
She watched the red shoes dance away with her feet. The executioner made two wooden feet and crutches for her.
“I will go to church now,” she told him. Karen went to a church and begged to the parson, “Please let me live with you.
I will work hard and be a good person.”
Karen lived in the parson’s house, read the Bible and took care of many children.
She whole-heartly repented.
One Sunday, she heard a sound.
It was the sound of church music.
She cried out, “Dear God, please forgive me”
At that moment, the room became very bright.
There was an angel standing before her.
It was the same angel she saw in the churchyard.
This time he was different.
He had a bunch of roses instead of the sword.
He touched her room with the roses.
Her room became the church.
She could hear the organ playing.
People said to her, “It is good to see you, Karen.
We are glad that you came.”
No one ever spoke of the red shoes again.
Karen started to have a feeling of peace and joy.
