- Paperback: 352 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Classic; New edition edition (July 26 2001)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0141184957
- ISBN-13: 978-0141184951
- Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 12.8 x 2.2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 240 g
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"The dozen stories in this...collection may be the literary testament of one of the most skilled but least prolific writers of the twentieth century.... The characters are large, heroic figures and they are brought to earth with a resounding crash. Such men and women are rare in contemporary fiction: the art to make them live vitally...as Dinesen does...is rarer still." -- Time
"A writer with a powerful imagination and a shrewd intelligence."
-- The New York Times Book Review --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
"A writer with a powerful imagination and a shrewd intelligence."
-- The New York Times Book Review --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
Book Description
These ornate, mysterious stories, written in Isak Dinesen's later years, range from a chilling gothic tale of sorcery and witchcraft, "The Caryatids", to a glittering, haunting depiction of an aristocratic family in 19th-century Denmark in "Copenhagen Season".
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Last works of a master writer, Oct 25 2001
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This review is from: Last Tales (Paperback)
More fictional than Out of Africa, more along the lines of Babette's Feast. Stories are set throughout Europe, sometimes in locales only hinted at through the character's names. Dinesen reminds me of the sudden twists in Borges or Edith Wharton's short stories. 340 pages, 12 stories.
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Great Tales By A Great Storyteller, May 28 2008
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This review is from: Last Tales (Paperback)
Old-fashioned, elegant entertainment and first-rate literature in the bargain. These stories have the magic of fairytales (for grown-ups) and the wisdom of great art.
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