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Anecdotes of Destiny and Ehrengard
And, Ehrengard
by Isak Dinesen
ISBN: 0679743332
ISBN-13: 9780679743330
Format: Paperback
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Summary
ANECDOTES OF DESTINY is a collection of five short stories set mostly during the 19th century, in locales ranging from China to Persia to Denmark. The collection includes "Babette's Feast," one of Dinesen's most popular and enduring works.
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"As a woman, Isak Dinesen is evidently lively and courageous, blessed with wisdom and a sense of humor. The authority of her writing, however, comes not so much from vision or even intuition as from an imagination that is both colorful and practical."
-- Commonweal
"Five well-nigh perfectly told tales."
-- Nation
"What other hands might have made the most venal kitch, the most tasteless exploitation of a childish appetite for sweets, Isak Dinesen has transformed, by imagination, by wit, by savoir-faire, above all by belief, into genuine if anachronistic art. Esthetically, it may be akin to needlework, but still it is the real thing."
-- New York Times
"Here are some splendid imaginative creations, the work of a writer of stature."
-- Times Literary Supplement
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Vintage Books
Published date: 1993
Size: 5.5 x 8.25 inches
Weight: 0.55 pounds
Publisher's Notes
Hauntingly evoked and sensuously realized, the five stories and novella collected here have the hold of 'fairy stories read in childhood...of dreams...and of our life as dreams.' (The New York Times).
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Dinesen, Isak
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