Table of Contents
List of Illustrations xi
Preface xiii
Acknowledgments xix
Note on Citations xxi
Genealogical Charts xxiii
Book 1 Tanne
Introduction 5
1 Either/Or 6
2 The Captain 13
3 A Family Romance 22
4 "Alkmene" 30
5 Three Sisters 36
6 The Road to Katholm 46
7 Aunt Bess 58
8 Art and Life 65
9 Countess Daisy 70
10 First Tales 76
11 Love, Humble and Audacious 85
12 Rue Boccador 91
13 "La Valse Mauve" 98
14 Noble Prospects 104
Book 1 TAnia
15 Sea Change 113
16 A Still Country 118
17 The Clear Darkness 122
18 Safari Life 130
19 Lucifer's Child 136
20 The Wing of Death 144
21 Dramatis Personae 149
22 Intermezzo 160
23 Thomas 164
24 Kamante and Lulu 169
25 A Love of Parallels 184
26 Nature and the Ideal 190
27 Holding Out 203
28 A Release from Self 212
29 Lion Hunt 218
30 Visitors to the Farm 224
31 Spirits of the Air 236
32 Closing the Parentheses 242
Book 3 Isak Dinesen
33 Amor Fati 255
34 Seven Gothic Tales 263
35 In a Dark Wood 274
36 Out of Africa 282
37 Winter's Tales 293
38 Life in a Cage 306
39 Heretics 313
40 Death of a Centaur 326
41 Folie à Deux 334
42 Goddess and Barfly 347
43 "The Immortal Story" 356
44 The Pact Is Broken 363
45 Betrayals 372
46 Should Not My Mind Keep the Knots? 380
Book 4 Pellegrina
47 Baksheesh 393
48 Echoes 397
49 "Tempests" 410
50 Isak Dinesen in America 417
51 Homeless 428
52 Wings 435
Citations 444
Works by Isak Dinesen 470
Selected Bibliography 473
Index 477