The Tinderbox
The Tinderbox is a short novel/fairy-tale written by Hans
Andersen. It follows the events of a wicked minded soldier as he discovers a
magical tinderbox via the aid of an ugly witch. After looting gold and silver
from the secret hollowed tree he steals the tinderbox and later discovers it
has powers to make him rich. He uses the box to summon 3 dogs to steal a
princess from the bronze palace, just so he could admire her beauty. His
actions are later discovered by the King and Queen, he is sentenced to death,
but before he was executed he used the tinderbox to help him escape and the 3
dogs killed the people of the town out to kill the soldier, and then he married
the princess.
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