Anecdotes of Destiny and Ehrengard

Fiction & Literature, Short Stories, Literary
Cover of the book Anecdotes of Destiny and Ehrengard by Isak Dinesen, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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Author: Isak Dinesen ISBN: 9780307790897
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Publication: April 27, 2011
Imprint: Vintage Language: English
Author: Isak Dinesen
ISBN: 9780307790897
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication: April 27, 2011
Imprint: Vintage
Language: English

In the classic "Babette's Feast," a mysterious Frenchwoman prepares a 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 a rakish artist.
Hauntingly evoked and sensuously realized, the five stories read and novella collected here have the hold of "fairy stories read in childhood . . . of dreams . . . and of our life as dreams" (The New York Times).

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In the classic "Babette's Feast," a mysterious Frenchwoman prepares a 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 a rakish artist.
Hauntingly evoked and sensuously realized, the five stories read and novella collected here have the hold of "fairy stories read in childhood . . . of dreams . . . and of our life as dreams" (The New York Times).

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