Seven Gothic Tales - Couverture rigide

Dinesen, Isak

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0679600868 ISBN 13 : 9780679600862

Editeur : Random House Inc, 1994

Synopsis

Book by Dinesen Isak

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

Isak Dinesen is the pseudonym of Karen Blixen, born in Denmark in 1885. After her marriage in 1914 to Baren Bror Blixen, she and her husband lived in British East Africa, where they owned a coffee plantation. She divorced from her husband in 1921 but continued to manage the plantation for another ten years, until the collapse of the coffee market forced her to sell the property and return to Denmark in 1931. There she began to write in English under the nom de plume Isak Dinesen. Her first book, and literary success, was Seven Gothic Tales. It was followed by Out of Africa, The Angelic Avengers (written under the pseudonym Pierre Andrézel), Winter's Tales, Last Tales, Anecdotes of Destiny, Shadows on the Grass, and Ehrengard. She died in 1962.

Présentation de l'éditeur

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 whose wife is so jealous that she cannot bear him to admire her jewels, and Lincoln Forsner, an Englishman whose search for a woman he met in a brothel leads him into many strange adventures.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Random House Inc
• Date d'édition: 1994
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0679600868
• ISBN 13: 9780679600862
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 522
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