Winter's Tales - Paperback
by Isak Dinesen
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Availability:In StockContributor:Isak DinesenSeries:Vintage InternationalPublish date:1993-06-01Pages:320
Language:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780679743347ISBN-10:679743340UPC:9780679743347Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Anthologies (multiple authors), Short Stories (single author), Magical RealismSize:8.08 x 5.22 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.5115Product ID:SCMATMCACQ
Winter's Tales
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...
Series: Vintage International
Language:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780679743347ISBN-10:679743340UPC:9780679743347Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Anthologies (multiple authors), Short Stories (single author), Magical RealismSize:8.08 x 5.22 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.5115Product ID:SCMATMCACQ
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 was 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...
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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