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Anecdotes of Destiny and Ehrengard

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Author Isak Dinesen
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Knopf | Vintage
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On sale Jun 01, 1993 | 978-0-679-74333-0
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From the author of the timeless classic Out of Africa: five hauntingly evoked, sensuously realized stories and a novella “that belong in that special realm in which artistry is more real than reality” (TIME). • Ehrengard is Now a Netflix Film.

“Dinesen’s stories are the work of a writer with a powerful imagination and a shrewd intelligence.” —The New York Times Book Review

In the classic “Babette’s Feast,” a mysterious Frenchwoman prepares sumptuous feast for a gathering of religious ascetics and, in doing so, introduces them to the true essence of grace. In “The Immortal Story,” a miserly old tea-trader living in Canton wishes for power and finds redemption as he turns an oft-told sailors’ tale into reality for a young man and woman. And in the magnificent novella Ehrengard, Dinesen tells of the powerful yet restrained rapport between a noble Wagnerian beauty and rakish artist.

Anecdotes of Destiny
   The Diver
   Babette’s Feast
   Tempests
   The Immortal Story
   The Ring

Ehrengard

“Dinesen’s stories are the work of a writer with a powerful imagination and a shrewd intelligence.” —The New York Times Book Review

“[Like] fairy stories read in childhood...of dreams...and of our life as dreams.” —The New York Times

“[Dinesen’s] imagination could visit, it seemed, any corner of European history and find there a tale tinged with the luster and vivid shadowing of medieval allegory.” —John Updike

“Stories that  belong in that special realm in which artistry is more real than reality.” —Time

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From the author of the timeless classic Out of Africa: five hauntingly evoked, sensuously realized stories and a novella “that belong in that special realm in which artistry is more real than reality” (TIME). • Ehrengard is Now a Netflix Film.

“Dinesen’s stories are the work of a writer with a powerful imagination and a shrewd intelligence.” —The New York Times Book Review

In the classic “Babette’s Feast,” a mysterious Frenchwoman prepares sumptuous feast for a gathering of religious ascetics and, in doing so, introduces them to the true essence of grace. In “The Immortal Story,” a miserly old tea-trader living in Canton wishes for power and finds redemption as he turns an oft-told sailors’ tale into reality for a young man and woman. And in the magnificent novella Ehrengard, Dinesen tells of the powerful yet restrained rapport between a noble Wagnerian beauty and rakish artist.

Table of Contents

Anecdotes of Destiny
   The Diver
   Babette’s Feast
   Tempests
   The Immortal Story
   The Ring

Ehrengard

Praise

“Dinesen’s stories are the work of a writer with a powerful imagination and a shrewd intelligence.” —The New York Times Book Review

“[Like] fairy stories read in childhood...of dreams...and of our life as dreams.” —The New York Times

“[Dinesen’s] imagination could visit, it seemed, any corner of European history and find there a tale tinged with the luster and vivid shadowing of medieval allegory.” —John Updike

“Stories that  belong in that special realm in which artistry is more real than reality.” —Time

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