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The Dumb Book (Story Time, Episode 87)
Story Time (Related to this series)
- Author
- Hans Christian Andersen
- Narrator
- Sam Kusi
- Publisher
- Lauscher Audiobooks
- Publish Date
- 26 May 2025
- Run Time
- 5 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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- Author
- Hans Christian Andersen
- Narrator
- Sam Kusi
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Release Date
- 26 May 2025
- ISBN
- 9783711920188
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Lauscher Audiobooks
- Genre
- Traditional or cultural fiction and true stories, tales and retellings
Synopsis
By the high-road in the forest lay a lonely peasant's hut; the path to it led right through the farmyard. The sun shone, and all the windows were open, and in the house there seemed a great bustle and movement; but in the garden, in an arbour formed of blooming elder-branches, stood an open coffin. A dead man had been carried out, who on this morning was to be buried. Nobody stood by the coffin looking sorrowfully at the dead; no one shed a tear over him. His face was covered with a white cloth, and under his head lay a large, thick book, the leaves of which were entirely composed of blotting paper, and on each leaf lay a withered flower. It was a complete herbarium, gathered by him in different parts of the world; and was to be buried with him, for so he wished it.
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