- Paperback: 448 pages
- Publisher: Vintage Books USA; Reprint edition (Dec 1991)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0679736417
- ISBN-13: 978-0679736417
- Product Dimensions: 13.1 x 2.3 x 20.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,388,785 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Originally published in 1934, Seven Gothic Tales, the first book by "one of the finest and most singular artists of our time" (The Atlantic), is a modern classic. Here are seven exquisite tales combining the keen psychological insight characteristic of the modern short story with the haunting mystery of the nineteenth-century Gothic tale, in the tradition of writers such as Goethe, Hoffmann, and Poe.
About the Author
ISAK DINESEN was the pen-name of Karen Blixen, who was born in Rungsted, Denmark in 1885. After studying art at Copenhagen, Paris and Rome, she married her cousin, Baron Bror Blixen-Finecke, in 1914. Together they went to Kenya to manage a coffee plantation. After their divorce in 1921, she continued to run the plantation until a collapse in the coffee market forced her back to Denmark in 1931.
Although she had written occasional contributions to Danish periodicals since 1905 (under the nom de plume of Osceola), her real début took place in 1934 with the publication of Seven Gothic Tales, written in English under her pen-name. Out of Africa (1937) is an autobiographical account of the years she spent in Kenya. Most of her subsequent books were published in English and Danish simultaneously, including Winter’s Tales (1942) and The Angelic Avengers (1946), under the name of Pierre Andrézol. Among her other collections of stories are Last Tales (1957), Anecdotes of Destiny (1958), Shadows on the Grass (1960) and Ehrengard (1963). All of these books are published by Penguin.
Baroness Blixen died in Rungsted in 1962.
--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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Count Augustus von Schimmelmann, a young Danish nobleman of a melancholy disposition, who would have been very good-looking if he had not been a little too fat, was writing a letter on a table made out of a millstone in the garden of an osieria near Pisa on a fine May evening of 1823. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
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Count Augustus von Schimmelmann, a young Danish nobleman of a melancholy disposition, who would have been very good-looking if he had not been a little too fat, was writing a letter on a table made out of a millstone in the garden of an osieria near Pisa on a fine May evening of 1823. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Back Cover
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8 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Isak Dinesen's debut book is one of those rare speciments in literature which one can read and re-read with increasing enjoyment. This is a wonderful collection of stories. Highly recomendable.
7 of 16 people found the following review helpful
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The Seven Gothic Tales are an essay in suspense/revulsion. These, one suspects, were written in an attempt to fall into the then young film horror genre.They were not taken up for that: werewolves and Transylvania passed into the Western group psyche instead. The tales are over-elaborately written and at times hard to follow.Woman as the cause of overdone revulsion, a recurrent theme, is maybe unpromising in itself. But these are the apprenticeship for Karen Blixen and, viewed in that light, show the writer's development and increasing maturity of style. Not a bad read for a winter's night and quite a varied choice for a book club.
2 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
hard to get into, certainly not a book to take on a long journey. After reading 'Out of Africa' I thought this would be as good, but was sadly dissappointed. Makes a good coaster for the mug of tea though.
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