Babette's Feast and Other Stories
$25.15
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
2 January 2014
Summary
All the stories have a mystic, fairy-tale quality, linked by themes of angels, the sea, dreams and fate. They were among the last to be written by Isak Dinesen, and show her as a master of short fiction.
These five rich, witty and magical stories from the author of Out of Africa include one of her most well known tales, ‘Babette’s Feast’, which was made into the classic film. It tells the story of a French cook working in a puritanical Norwegian community, who treats her empl…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141393766 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141393769 |
| Author: | Isak Dinesen |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 2 January 2014 |
| Weight: | 194g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 129mm x 14mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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About The Author
Isak Dinesen
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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