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The main character in the story is a young man who has squandered his once considerable fortune but who acquires a flying trunk. The trunk allows him to visit Turkey where he meets the king's daughter. The princess falls in love with the young man and the young man also wins the trust of her parents. It is agreed that the princess and the young man are to be married but the wedding never takes place. Due to the young man's carelessness, the flying trunk is destroyed and he is left separated from his bride forever.

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  • The Flying Trunk
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  • The main character in the story is a young man who has squandered his once considerable fortune but who acquires a flying trunk. The trunk allows him to visit Turkey where he meets the king's daughter. The princess falls in love with the young man and the young man also wins the trust of her parents. It is agreed that the princess and the young man are to be married but the wedding never takes place. Due to the young man's carelessness, the flying trunk is destroyed and he is left separated from his bride forever.
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  • The main character in the story is a young man who has squandered his once considerable fortune but who acquires a flying trunk. The trunk allows him to visit Turkey where he meets the king's daughter. The princess falls in love with the young man and the young man also wins the trust of her parents. It is agreed that the princess and the young man are to be married but the wedding never takes place. Due to the young man's carelessness, the flying trunk is destroyed and he is left separated from his bride forever. The story's Oriental setting and its theme of a character acquiring a magical object which makes flight possible are suggestive of The Thousand and One Nights, a work with which Andersen had been familiar since childhood. Furthermore, like several stories in The Thousand and One Nights, "The Flying Trunk" contains a tale-within-a-tale. The manner in which the young protagonist wins the trust of the king and queen as a result of his talent as a storyteller is somewhat reminiscent of how Scheherezade gains the confidence of the king in The Thousand and One Nights.
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