Seven Gothic Tales
The Roads Round Pisa; The Old Chevalier; the Monkey; The Deluge at Norderney; The Supper at Elsinore; The Dreamers; The Poet
$33.78
- Paperback
368 pages
- Release Date
26 March 2003
Summary
Romantics, adventurers, sensualists, melancholics, and dreamers inhabit the bizarre and exotic world conjured up in these seven intricately interwoven tales. Their settings range from Tuscany and Elsinore to a dhow on its way from Lamu to Zanzibar.
Proclaimed a masterpiece on its publication in 1934, this collection is shot through with themes of love and desire—from the maiden lady who now believes herself to have been the grand courtesan of her time, to the Count whose wife is so je…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141187198 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141187190 |
| Author: | Isak Dinesen |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 26 March 2003 |
| Weight: | 270g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 22mm |
| 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.
Although she had written occasional contributions to Danish periodicals since 1905 (under the nom de plume of Osceola), her real debut 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 Andrezol. Among her other collections of stories are Last Tales (1957), Anecdotes of Destiny (1958), Shadows on the Grass (1960) and Ehrengard (1963).
Baroness Blixen died in Rungsted in 1962.
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