Seven Gothic Tales

Seven Gothic Tales PDF Author: Isak Dinesen
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780394604961
Category : Danish fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 420

Book Description
Originally published in 1934, Seven Gothic Tales, the first book by "one of the finest and most singular artists of our time" (The Atlantic), is a modern classic. Here are seven exquisite tales combining the keen psychological insight characteristic of the modern short story with the haunting mystery of the nineteenth-century Gothic tale, in the tradition of writers such as Goethe, Hoffmann, and Poe. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Isak Dinesen

Isak Dinesen PDF Author: Judith Thurman
Publisher: Picador
ISBN: 1250857104
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 602

Book Description
Judith Thurman’s brilliant, National Book Award–winning biography of Isak Dinesen—now with a new foreword by the author A brilliant literary portrait, Isak Dinesen remains the only comprehensive biography of one of the greatest storytellers of our time. Dinesen’s magnificent memoir, Out of Africa, established her as a major twentieth-century author, who was twice nominated for the Nobel Prize. With exceptional grace, Judith Thurman’s classic work explores Dinesen’s life. Until the appearance of this book, the life and art of Isak Dinesen have been—as Dinesen herself wrote of two lovers in a tale—“a pair of locked caskets, each containing the key to the other.” Judith Thurman has provided the master key to them both.

Out Of Africa

Out Of Africa PDF Author: Isak Dinesen
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 1443432954
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 408

Book Description
In Out of Africa, author Isak Dinesen takes a wistful and nostalgic look back on her years living in Africa on a Kenyan coffee plantation. Recalling the lives of friends and neighbours—both African and European—Dinesen provides a first-hand perspective of colonial Africa. Through her obvious love of both the landscape and her time in Africa, Dinesen’s meditative writing style deeply reflects the themes of loss as her plantation fails and she returns to Europe. HarperTorch brings great works of non-fiction and the dramatic arts to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperTorch collection to build your digital library.

Shadows on the Grass

Shadows on the Grass PDF Author: Isak Dinesen
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141961465
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 89

Book Description
Isak Dinesen takes up the absorbing story of her life in Kenya begun in the unforgettable Out of Africa, which she published under the name of Karen Blixen. With warmth and humanity these four stories illuminate her love both for the African people, their dignity and traditions, and for the beauty and wildness of the landscape. The first three were written in the 1950s and the last, 'Echoes from the Hills', was written especially for this volume in the summer of 1960 when the author was in her seventies. In all they provide a moving final chapter to her African reminiscences.

Last Tales

Last Tales PDF Author: Isak Dinesen
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1479452467
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 356

Book Description
"Last Tales" is a collection of twelve of the last tales that Karen Blixen wrote under the pen name Isak Dinesen, before her death in 1962. They include seven tales from Albondocani, a projected novel that was never completed; “The Caryatids,” an unfinished Gothic tale of a couple bedeviled by an old letter and a gypsy’s spell; and three tales of winter, including “Converse at Night in Copenhagen,” a drunken, allnight conversation between a boyking, a prostitute, and a poor young poet.

Last Tales

Last Tales PDF Author: Isak Dinesen
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307790746
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 373

Book Description
Last Tales is a collection of twelve of the last tales that Isak Dinesen wrote before her death in 1962. They include seven tales from Albondocani, a projected novel that was never completed; "The Caryatids," an unfinished Gothic tale of a couple bedeviled by an old letter and a gypsy's spell; and three tales of winter, including "Converse at Night in Copenhagen," a drunken, all-night conversation between a boy-king, a prostitute, and a poor young poet.

Out of Africa and Shadows on the Grass

Out of Africa and Shadows on the Grass PDF Author: Isak Dinesen
Publisher: G K Hall & Company
ISBN: 9780816141821
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 566

Book Description
Set in Africa, it is the story of Dinesen's years in Africa--together with Shadows on the Grass. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Gothic Tales

Gothic Tales PDF Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198734298
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 590

Book Description
This collection brings together 33 of Arthur Conan Doyle's best Gothic Tales for the first time.

Modern Gothic

Modern Gothic PDF Author: Victor Sage
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719042089
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 212

Book Description
This lively collection of essays aims to chart the survival of the gothic strain - the dark, the forbidding, the alienated, the fantastic - in a spectrum of popular and 'high cultural' forms of representation.

Seven Gothic Tales

Seven Gothic Tales PDF Author: Isak Dinesen
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307791807
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 446

Book Description
Originally published in 1934, Seven Gothic Tales, the first book by "one of the finest and most singular artists of our time" (The Atlantic), is a modern classic. Here are seven exquisite tales combining the keen psychological insight characteristic of the modern short story with the haunting mystery of the nineteenth-century Gothic tale, in the tradition of writers such as Goethe, Hoffmann, and Poe.
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