Winter's Tales
by:
Isak Dinesen (author)
ISBN:
9780226153001 (0226153002)
Publish date: 1977
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Pages no: 313
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Classics,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Literary Fiction,
Short Stories,
Scandinavian Literature,
Denmark,
Danish,
Fiction
Like many Americans (I suspect), my introduction to Isak Dinesen was via the film version of Out of Africa. I actually never saw it until an adult, but my mother bought the film tie-in copy of Out of Africa and Shadows On the Grass which I read cover to cover two or three times in high school -- an...
I went to Denmark, pretty much, to see Karen Blixen's home. It is a beautiful place; the land around the house, including Blixen's grave, has been made into a bird santucary. The house is near the water, and at least when I went there, the walk from the train station included passing what looked t...