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  • Paperback: 224 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin Classics; New Ed edition (27 Sep 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0141185880
  • ISBN-13: 978-0141185880
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.8 x 1.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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If one theme unifies the 11 tales collected here, it is that of longing. Written after her return from Kenya and during the dark days of the Nazi occupation, they derive their themes and locales from Isak Dinesen's childhood in Denmark. 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.

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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.

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Wonderful 18 Dec 2001
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Isak Dinesen (or Baroness Karen Blixen, as was her real name) produced a masterpiece with Winter's Tales, at least in my opinion. She wrote fantastic tales in a time, when everybody else wrote "serious" books, and she did so well. When you sit down with this book, you don't get up until you have finished reading it. The tales are lovely, fantastic, like fairytales or something. I must admit to having read them in danish, but no matter what language you read them in, they are wonderful
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Sad stories 12 Aug 2001
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A mix of stories that yet all fell as if they are fairy stories, but for adults. They do all give you a feeling of longing. Not nostalgia, as it is too sad for that, and the sadness is what stays in the memory. Dinesen is writing of Denmark (mainly), but in very competent English. I just felt that she was a little "purple" at times, for my taste anyway.
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