Les Fils De Rois et Autres Contes

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.

Nouveaux Contes d'hiver

Ce premier volume réunit fictions, essais et correspondances de K. Blixen afin de parvenir à une confrontation en miroir entre réel et transfiguration par l'écriture.Réunit : "La ferme africaine" ; "Ex Africa" ; "Lettres d'Afrique, 1914-1931" ; "Ombres sur la prairie", et autres textes.Glossaire

Afrique

Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Karen Blixen, author of the acclaimed memoir Out of Africa, was also a master of the short story form: her tales offer luminous meditations on rebirth and redemption, on the mystery and unexpectedness of human behaviour. Alongside 'Babette's Feast', this selection also includes 'Sorrow-Acre', often thought to be one of her finest stories.'Tales as delicate as Venetian glass', The New York Times

Babette's Feast

Les Contes

Un jeune mousse sauve un faucon et est sauvé par une Laponne. L'aventure, dans le port d'Anvers, d'un écrivain malheureux, qui fuit sa propre vie. Le symbole mystérieux d'un collier qui a une perle de trop. Deux sœurs ruinées qui jouent aux riches héritières. Une héroïne de la Grande Guerre... Tels sont quelques-uns des thèmes et des personnages de ces Contes d'hiver, plus doux, plus tendres que les Contes gothiques de la grande romancière danoise.

Contes d'Hiver

Nouveaux Contes D'hiver

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.

Ombres sur la prairie

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 nineteenthcentury Gothic tale, in the tradition of writers such as Goethe, Hoffmann, and Poe.From the Trade Paperback edition.

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