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- "The Ugly Duckling" (Danish: Den grimme ælling) is a literary fairy tale by Danish poet and author Hans Christian Andersen (1805 – 1875). The story tells of a homely little bird born in a barnyard who suffers abuse from his neighbors until, much to his delight (and to the surprise of others), he matures into a graceful swan, the most beautiful bird of all. The story is beloved around the world as a tale about personal transformation for the better. “The Ugly Duckling” was first published 11 November 1843 with three other tales by Andersen in Copenhagen, Denmark to great critical acclaim. The tale has been adapted to various media including opera, musical, and animated film. The tale is completely Andersen's invention and owes no debt to fairy or folk lore.
- The Ugly Duckling is a by Hans Christian Andersen. First published in 1843, the story is an original of Andersen's, with no basis in lore or legends. It has been adaptated numerous times in different medias. Disney adapted it twice for thier Silly Symphonies series, and it was reworked for Broadway as the musical HONK!
- The Ugly Duckling is the character from the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale of the same name. His own family of ducklings reject him because he looks different. The moral of the story is sometimes true beauty will appear sooner in time.
- The Ugly Duckling is an episode of the television series Hello Kitty's Animation Theater.
- IT was so glorious out in the country; it was summer; the cornfields were yellow, the oats were green, the hay had been put up in stacks in the green meadows, and the stork went about on his long red legs, and chattered Egyptian, for this was the language he had learned from his good mother. All around the fields and meadows were great forests, and in the midst of these forests lay deep lakes. Yes, it was right glorious out in the country. In the midst of the sunshine there lay an old farm, with deep canals about it, and from the wall down to the water grew great burdocks, so high that little children could stand upright under the loftiest of them. It was just as wild there as in the deepest wood, and here sat a Duck upon her nest; she had to hatch her ducklings; but she was almost tired o
- The protagonist of the story is a bird that hatches from a large egg in a duck's nest. Due to his strange appearance, he is not accepted by the other ducks or by other animals on the farm and suffers constant verbal and physical abuse. The unhappy bird leaves home. He fails to find happiness anywhere else but briefly becomes excited when he sees some swans flying overhead, feeling them to be the most beautiful birds he has ever seen. After suffering a miserable winter, in the spring, the Ugly Duyckling finds that he has grown up to be a swan himself.
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