A CHEERFUL TEMPER - FAIRY TALES OF HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN

Описание: What can we learn about life from the residents of a churchyard? In this witty and reflective tale, a narrator who inherited a "good temper" from his father a surprisingly jolly hearse driver shares his unique perspective on human nature.

By reading the local newspaper and wandering among the graves, which he views as "closed books," the narrator documents the quirks and follies of those who have passed on. You’ll meet:

1. The perfectionist who fretted himself into an early grave because theater sets weren't realistic enough.
2. The aristocrat who was merely a "pearl-embroidered bell-pull" with someone else doing all his actual work.
3. The man who spent 67 years waiting for a single good idea, only to die of joy the moment he finally had one.
The miserly woman who meowed at night to trick neighbors into thinking she fed a cat.

Through these character sketches, the narrator reveals his secret to a happy life: when people or circumstances become too much to bear, he simply "buries" the offenders in his mind until they return as better characters. Discover why he hopes his final epitaph will simply read: "The man with a cheerful temper".

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