| #4222459 in Books | 2002-10-31 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 7.80 x.83 x5.08l,.65 | File type: PDF | 368 pages||13 of 13 people found the following review helpful.| Bizarre--And Extremely Well-Written|By theta|I loved "Out of Africa", which I read--on Hemingway's recommendation--long before the silly movie adaptation existed. This is quite different, except that in both that book and this book Karen Blixen proves herself a master (mistress?) of English prose-- which is all the more surprising considering that English was not her native t||"These tales are a modern refinement of German romanticism. ...They are peopled, or haunted, by ghosts of a past age, voluptuaries dreaming of the singers and ballerinas of the operas of Mozart and Gluck, young men who are too melancholy to enjoy love or too p
Romantics, adventurers, sensualists, melancholics and dreamers inhabit the bizarre and exotic world conjured up in these seven intricately interwoven tales, whose settings range from Tuscany and Elsinore, to a dhow on its way from Lamu to Zanzibar.Proclaimed a masterpiece on its publication in 1934, this collection is shot through with themes of love and desire - from the maiden lady who now believes herself to have been the grand courtesan of her time, to the Count whos...
You easily download any file type for your gadget.Seven Gothic Tales. Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen) (Penguin Modern Classics) | Isak Dinesen. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.
