Literary tale
Hans Christian Andersen · Denmark · 1845
On the last night of the year, a girl walks barefoot through the snow with matches nobody wanted to buy. Too afraid to go home, she sits down in a corner between two houses and begins to strike them, one by one, against the wall.
Content warning: Death of a child, death from cold, extreme poverty, a child alone and unprotected in the cold, fear of physical punishment by her father.
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