Winter's Tales (Penguin Modern Classics) - Softcover

Dinesen, Isak

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141185880 ISBN 13: 9780141185880

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2001

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.

About this title

Product Description:

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; Alkmene; The Fish; Peter and Rosa; Sorrow-Acre; A Consolatory Tale)

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0141185880
• ISBN 13: 9780141185880
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224