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    Seven Gothic Tales

    Isak Dinesen

    A collection of seven tales, whose settings range from Tuscany and Elsinore, to a dhow on its way from Lamu to Zanzibar. It is shot through with themes of love…

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    Babette’s Feast

    Isak Dinesen

    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…

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    Last Tales

    Isak Dinesen

    Twelve tales, the last that Isak Dinesen wrote before her death in 1962.

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    Anecdotes of Destiny and Ehrengard

    Isak Dinesen

    Includes five stories from the author of Out of Africa.

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    Winter’s Tales

    Isak Dinesen

    Isak Dinesen was the pen-name of Karen Blixen, who was born in Rungsted, Denmark in 1885. After studying art, she married her cousin, Baron Bror Blixen-Finecke. Together they went to…

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    The Angelic Avengers

    Isak Dinesen

    Lucan has been orphaned and Zosine has been deserted. Bound together by poverty and grief, they set out to make a future for themselves. They are adopted by the Reverend…

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    Winter’s Tales

    Isak Dinesen

    Tells the stories of a struggling author, Danish country life, a brave Frenchwoman, a young sailor, a young married couple, a dreamer, and a wealthy child.

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    Out of Africa: and Shadows on the Grass

    Isak Dinesen,Isak Dinesen

    Set in Africa, it is the story of Dinesen’s years in Africa–together with Shadows on the Grass.

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    Seven Gothic Tales

    Isak Dinesen

    A collection of seven tales, whose settings range from Tuscany and Elsinore, to a dhow on its way from Lamu to Zanzibar. It is shot through with themes of love…

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    Out of Africa

    Isak Dinesen,Isak Dinesen

    From the moment Karen Blixen arrived in Kenya in 1914 to manage a coffee plantation, her heart belonged to Africa. Drawn to the intense colours and ravishing landscapes, Karen Blixen…

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    Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller

    Judith Thurman

    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…

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    Isak Dinesen and the Engendering of Narrative

    Susan Hardy Aiken

    Although Isak Dinesen has been widely acclaimed as a popular writer, her work has received little sustained critical attention. In this revisionist study, Susan Hardy Aiken takes up the complex…

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    Isak Dinesen and the Engendering of Narrative

    Susan Hardy Aiken

    Although Isak Dinesen has been widely acclaimed as a popular writer, her work has received little sustained critical attention. In this revisionist study, Susan Hardy Aiken takes up the complex…

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    Isak Dinesen: The Life And Imagination Of A Seducer

    Olga Anastasia Pelensky

    This biography of the Danish literary figure Karen Isak Dinesen draws on papers held in private collections and interviews in Africa, Denmark and England to piece together her complex life…

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    A Study Guide for Isak Dinesen’s Ring

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    A Study Guide for Isak Dinesen’s Ring, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context…

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    Study Guide to Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen

    A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Isak Dinesen’s Out of Africa, one of the last books to come out of British Colonization in Africa.

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    A Study Guide for Isak Dinesen’s Babette’s Feast

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    A Study Guide for Isak Dinesen’s Babette’s Feast, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical…

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    A Study Guide for Isak Dinesen’s Out of Africa

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    A Study Guide for Isak Dinesen’s Out of Africa, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Nonfiction Classics for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions…

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    A Study Guide for Isak Dinesen’s Sorrow-Acre

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    A Study Guide for Isak Dinesen’s Sorrow-Acre, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context…

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    A Study Guide for Isak Dinesen’s Sailor-Boy’s Tale

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    A Study Guide for Isak Dinesen’s Sailor-Boy’s Tale, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical…

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    Babette’s Feast and Other Stories

    Isak Dinesen,Karen Blixen

    Includes five stories from the author of Out of Africa .

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    Shadows on the Grass

    Isak Dinesen,Karen Blixen

    Includes four stories that illuminate the author’s love both for the African people, their dignity and traditions, and for the beauty and wildness of the landscape.

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    Out of Africa

    Isak Dinesen,Karen Blixen

    In describing her experiences managing a coffee plantation in Kenya, the author provides insight into the nature of African life.

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    Isak Dinesen Reading Soren Kierkegaard: On Christianity, Seduction, Gender, and Repetition

    Mads Bunch

    In this thorough comparative study, Mads Bunch uncovers Dinesen’s exploration of Kierkegaard and shows how Dinesen in her tales subverts major ideas from Kierkegaard’s works concerning Christianity, seduction, gender and…

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    Isak Dinesen Reading Soren Kierkegaard: On Christianity, Seduction, Gender, and Repetition

    Mads Bunch

    Not only did Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen, 1885-1962) read the works of her fellow-countryman, the Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855), closely, she also created a surprisingly large number of tales…

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    Narcissism of Empire: Loss, Rage & Revenge in the Works of Thomas De Quincey, Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling & Isak Dinesen

    Diane Simmons

    Studies the five writers widely read in the age of British imperialism. These writers bore emotional scars and as adults bolstered their fragile psychic states through fantasies of empire. It…

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    Narcissism of Empire: Loss, Rage & Revenge in the Works of Thomas De Quincey, Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling & Isak Dinesen

    Diane Simmons

    Widely read in the age of British imperialism, the five writers studied here have allowed millions to participate vicariously in the imperial project. The authors being - Thomas De Quincey…

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