The Shoes of Fortune
- Author Hans Christian Andersen
- Narrator Emma Fenney
- Publisher Dreamscape Media
- Run Time 1 hour and 25 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Children’s / Teenage fiction and true stories, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Classic fiction, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Short stories, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Traditional stories.
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In The Shoes of Fortune a series of people who are dissatisfied with their lives, put on a pair of magic shoes that grants them the wishes. A civil servant who idealizes the middle ages, experiences all its inconveniences; a watchman lives the lonely life of his superior and endures a terrifying visit to the moon. The shoes pass from owner to owner until one exhausted wearer who wishes for rest and spiritual freedom, dies. Andersen concludes with a quote by Solon: Call no man happy until he rests in his grave.
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