Winter's Tales: The Sailor-Boy's Tale; the Young Man with the Carnation; the Pearls; the Invincible Slave-Owners; the Heroine; the Dreaming Child; ... And Rosa; Sorrow-Acre; a Consolatory Tale - Softcover

Dinesen, Isak; Blixen, Karen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140180451 ISBN 13: 9780140180459

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1989

Synopsis

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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About the Author:

Karen Blixen (17th April 1885 - 7th September 1962) was a Danish author who wrote in Danish, English and French, also known by the pen name Isak Dinesen. Blixen married her cousin Baron Bror Blixen-Finecke in 1914 and moved with him to Kenya where they set up a coffee plantation. They divorced in 1921 and Blixen remained in Kenya for another ten years recording her experiences in her best-known work Out of Africa. In 1931 Blixen returned to Denmark where she would live until her death in 1962.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0140180451
• ISBN 13: 9780140180459
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224