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Paperback. Condition: Fair. In Isak Dinesen's universe, the magical enchantment of the fairy tale and the moral resonance of myth coexist with an unflinching grasp of the most obscure human strengths and weaknesses. A despairing author abandons his wife, but in the course of a long night's wandering, he learns love's true value and returns to her, only to find her a different woman than the one he left. A landowner, seeking to prove a principle, inadvertently exposes the ferocity of mother love. A wealthy young traveler melts the hauteur of a lovely woman by masquerading as her aged and loyal servant. Shimmering and haunting, Dinesen's Winter's Tales transport us, through their author's deft guidance of our desire to imagine, to the mysterious place where all stories are born.…

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Paperback. Condition: Fair. Last Tales is a collection of twelve of the last tales that Isak Dinesen wrote before her death in 1962. They include seven tales from Albondocani, a projected novel that was never completed; The Caryatids, an unfinished Gothic tale of a couple bedeviled by an old letter and a gypsy's spell; and three tales of winter, including Converse at Night in Copenhagen, a drunken, all-night conversation between a boy-king, a prostitute, and a poor young poet.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. Last Tales is a collection of twelve of the last tales that Isak Dinesen wrote before her death in 1962. They include seven tales from Albondocani, a projected novel that was never completed; The Caryatids, an unfinished Gothic tale of a couple bedeviled by an old letter and a gypsy's spell; and three tales of winter, including Converse at Night in Copenhagen, a drunken, all-night conversation between a boy-king, a prostitute, and a poor young poet.…

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Paperback. Condition: Good. From the author of the timeless classic Out of Africa: five hauntingly evoked, sensuously realized stories and a novella "that belong in that special realm in which artistry is more real than reality" (TIME). * Ehrengard is Now a Netflix Film. "Dinesen's stories are the work of a writer with a powerful imagination and a shrewd intelligence." --The New York Times Book Review In the classic "Babette's Feast," a mysterious Frenchwoman prepares sumptuous feast for a gathering of religious ascetics and, in doing so, introduces them to the true essence of grace. In "The Immortal Story," a miserly old tea-trader living in Canton wishes for power and finds redemption as he turns an oft-told sailors' tale into reality for a young man and woman. And in the magnificent novella Ehrengard, Dinesen tells of the powerful yet restrained rapport between a noble Wagnerian beauty and rakish artist.…

Paperback. Condition: Fair. From the author of the timeless classic Out of Africa: five hauntingly evoked, sensuously realized stories and a novella "that belong in that special realm in which artistry is more real than reality" (TIME). * Ehrengard is Now a Netflix Film. "Dinesen's stories are the work of a writer with a powerful imagination and a shrewd intelligence." --The New York Times Book Review In the classic "Babette's Feast," a mysterious Frenchwoman prepares sumptuous feast for a gathering of religious ascetics and, in doing so, introduces them to the true essence of grace. In "The Immortal Story," a miserly old tea-trader living in Canton wishes for power and finds redemption as he turns an oft-told sailors' tale into reality for a young man and woman. And in the magnificent novella Ehrengard, Dinesen tells of the powerful yet restrained rapport between a noble Wagnerian beauty and rakish artist.…

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