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Isak Dinesen
Paperback | Pages: 320 pages Rating: 3.9 | 1869 Users | 146 Reviews
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| Title | : | Winter's Tales |
| Author | : | Isak Dinesen |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 320 pages |
| Published | : | June 1st 1993 by Vintage (first published 1942) |
| Categories | : | Short Stories. Fiction. Classics. Cultural. Denmark. European Literature. Danish. Literature |
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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.Point Books To Winter's Tales
| Original Title: | Vinter-Eventyr |
| ISBN: | 0679743340 (ISBN13: 9780679743347) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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Ratings: 3.9 From 1869 Users | 146 ReviewsWrite-Up Regarding Books Winter's Tales
This is just not as good as her earlier collection "Seven Gothic Tales," which has some of the best short stories ever written. That book had a youthful excitement and vigor, full of surprising stories that delighted in the art of keeping the reader on his toes. "Winter's Tales" is much...frostier. Much of it seems cold and dead. It feels as if Dinesen has decided not to be childish any more and instead feels obliged to share great "mature" wisdom with everyone without bothering to tell aLove her. The Man with the Pink Carnation is my favorite, the Blue Jar is a great story. <3
I read this book on a short trip to Denmark because I hoped to visit Karen Blixen's home/museum outside Copenhagen. Reading the short stories in Winter's Tales, many set in Denmark and often a century before she wrote them, I became immersed in the characters and surprising twists in her tales, making my visit to her home so special! I walked through the forest around her house, appreciating that she had left instructions for it to be a bird sanctuary, and stood under a huge beech tree where she
This was a great book. I loved all the different stories this book had to tell! SOOOO much detail!
Really enjoyable storytelling that feels like fairy tales with lots of philosophy and beautiful Northern European scenery mixed in. Ive never been one for fairy tales but I definitely want more of Karen Blixens.
This is a beautiful and life-changing book of stories. Really something special.
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