Anecdotes of Destiny and Ehrengard by Dinesen, Isak

Anecdotes of Destiny and Ehrengard (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780679743330)

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Anecdotes of Destiny and Ehrengard by Dinesen, Isak

Anecdotes of Destiny and Ehrengard

$16.00
Anecdotes of Destiny and Ehrengard by Dinesen, Isak

Anecdotes of Destiny and Ehrengard

$16.00
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: Isak Dinesen
ISBN-10: 0679743332
ISBN-13: 9780679743330
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
Published: 06/01/1993
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.46lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.23w x 0.74d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 05/17/1993
By Isak Dinesen
By Isak Dinesen
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Isak Dinesen is the pseudonym of Karen Blixen, born in Denmark in 1885. After her marriage in 1914 to Baren Bror Blixen, she and her husband lived in British East Africa, where they owned a coffee plantation. She divorced from her husband in 1921 but continued to manage the plantation for another ten years, until the collapse of the coffee market forced her to sell the property and return to Denmark in 1931. There she began to write in English under the nom de plume Isak Dinesen. Her first book, and literary success, was Seven Gothic Tales. It was followed by Out of Africa, The Angelic Avengers (written under the pseudonym Pierre Andr騷el), Winter's Tales, Last Tales, Anecdotes of Destiny, Shadows on the Grass, and Ehrengard. She died in 1962.

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