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Delaying Is Not Forgetting

From Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, by Hans Christian Andersen

Hans Christian Andersen was a Danish writer whose fairy tales, though written for all ages, explore serious moral and spiritual themes. "Delaying Is Not Forgetting" is structured as three connected parables on a single theme: that kindness remembered and debts unpaid in the present will find their accounting in time. This text reflects its era; a few period terms have been modernised. Andersen's tales reward the reader willing to trace how a simple proverb can illuminate love, justice and the hidden workings of conscience across generations. First published in the nineteenth century.

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Red · Complex language and analysisTypical starting range: ages 15–17

Length

long · about 1045 words in 4 sections · 2 pictures

Source

Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, H. C. Andersen

First published

see the About page in the reader

Regions

Canada · United States

Included formats

• · Web reader and PDF
• · EPUB for e-readers
• · Home-print sheet
• · Folded booklet
• · Binder edition (8.5 × 11)
• · Worksheet
• · Quick Check (10 questions) with answer key
• · Read-aloud script
• · Teacher’s Edition (members)

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