Babette's Feast and Other Stories: (Penguin Modern Classics)
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Babette's Feast and Other Stories: (Penguin Modern Classics)
Babette's Feast and Other Stories: (Penguin Modern Classics)

Babette's Feast and Other Stories: (Penguin Modern Classics)

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Isak Dinesen (Author)  

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These five rich, witty and magical stories from the author of Out of Africa include one of her most well known tales, 'Babette's Feast', which was made into the classic film. It tells the story of a French cook working in a puritanical Norwegian community, who treats her employers to the decadent feast of a lifetime. There is also a real-life Prospero and his Ariel in 'Tempests', a mysterious pearl-fisher in 'The Diver' and a brief, tragic encounter in 'The Ring'. All the stories have a mystic, fairy-tale quality, linked by themes of angels, the sea, dreams and fate. They were among the last to be written by Isak Dinesen, and show her as a master of short fiction.
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.
  • Contributor: Isak Dinesen
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • ISBN13: 9780141393766
  • Number of Pages: 256
  • Packaged Dimensions: 129x198x15mm
  • Packaged Weight: 191
  • Format: Paperback
  • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
  • Release Date: 2013-11-07
  • Series: Penguin Modern Classics
  • Binding: Paperback / softback
  • Biography: 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.

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