This author wrote of a Chinese emperor who replaces the title bird with a mechanical one only to have the first one save him from death.
In one story by this man, a man loses his shadow only to have it surpass him, marry a princess, and have him arrested and executed. The title character of another of his stories is a tree that is humiliated when jumped over by a hare and eventually taken to serve as a Christmas tree before being cut up and burned. This author wrote of a Chinese emperor who replaces the title bird with a mechanical one only to have the first one save him from death. This author of "The Fir Tree" and "The Nightingale" wrote a work about a mirror that shatters into many pieces, one of which pierces the heart of a young boy; in that story, Gerda gets help from characters like the little robber girl and the Lapp and Finn women in rescuing her brother Kai from the title monarch. For ten points, identify this author who wrote about a girl who lights the title objects to maintain the vision of her grandmother in "The Little Match Girl," as well as the longer story, "The Snow Queen."
In one story by this man, a man loses his shadow only to have it surpass him, marry a princess, and have him arrested and executed.
Hans Christian Anderson