Winter's Tales

by Isak Dinesen, Karen Blixen

Overview

"The tale is the original form of literature...tales are written the way one speaks. I also hope that my tales can be told, for thus they have been conceived, and such is my natural form of expression, when I write." --Karen Blixen, writing as Isak Dinesen, in 1942 following the Danish publication of WINTER'S TALES.

These tales include the following titles: "The Young Man with the Carnation," "Sorrow-acre," "The Heroine," "The Sailorboy's Tale," "The Pearls," "The Invincible Slave-owners," "The Dreaming Child," "Alkmene," "The Fish," "Peter and Rosa" and "A Consolatory Tale."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788832580464
Publisher:	Reading Essentials
Publication date:	04/17/2019
Sold by:	StreetLib SRL
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	556,134
File size:	364 KB

About the Author

Isak Dinesen is the pseudonym of Karen Blixen, born in Denmark in 1885. After her marriage in 1914 to Baren Bror Blixen, she and her husband lived in British East Africa, where they owned a coffee plantation. She was divorced from her husband in 1921 but continued to manage the plantation for another ten years, until the collapse of the coffee market forced her to sell the property and return to Denmark in 1931. There she began to write in English under the nom de plume Isak Dinesen. Her first book, and literary success, was Seven Gothic Tales. It was followed by Out of Africa, The Angelic Avengers (written under the pseudonym Pierre Andrézel), Winter's Tales, Last Tales, Anecdotes of Destiny, Shadows on the Grass and Ehrengard. She died in 1962.

What People are Saying About This

Eudora Welty

Dinesen's stories come toward one like the flashes...from a lighthouse on a strange and infrequently sighted coast—a coast beautiful and precarious, for it may be the last outreach of magic, but resting on bedrock.

Editorial Reviews

These tales belong to an old and great tradition and they're worthy of it.
—The Nation

Louise Bogan

"Dinesen's stories come toward one like the flashes...from a lighthouse on a strange and infrequently sighted coast—a coast beautiful and precarious, for it may be the last outreach of magic, but resting on bedrock."—Eudora Welty

"These tales belong to an old and great tradition and are worthy of it." —The Nation

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