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What can I say about Isak Dinesen? She is a master of deep story telling and lyrical writing. She is one of my favorite writers, along with Italo Calvino and Rana Dasgupta. Seven Gothic Tales, Dinesen's first collection of stories, published in 1934, is one of my favorite books, but I had never read Winter's Tales until now. The stories in Winter's Tales are mostly set in Denmark, in the 19th and early 20th century. Most of them, especially The Sailor Boy's Tale, are astoundingly magical, with a twist that you never could have foretold.


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Winter Tales Isak Dinesen 9780679743347 Books Reviews

This product was good, i think it took a little long to recieve it. but it was good.
It is interesting to read these stories told by a real professional. I normally do not read short works. My interest was kept alive,
I liked the stories from sample reading, so I ordered the kindle version.
For some reason, it was in large print, and too difficult to read as the screen holds just a couple of sentences.
Sorry I can't rate this book, I couldn't read the book in huge print. I guess perhaps it is for the vision impaired?
there is so much going on in these stories and it's easy to pick up and put down. I love it.
Dark. Gloomy. Dull.
Got this book for my English Short Story class in college. The stories were an interesting read.
This is a terrifc book by a unique writer.

That's no surprise, because Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen) wrote a number of fine books. Her ledger contains a couple of volumes of reminiscence about her life in Africa, a pseudonymous novel of adventure (_The Angelic Avengers_), and posthumously published books of stories (_Carnival_) and essays (_Daguerrotypes_). Despite the interest and occasional excellence of these books -- especially in the case of _Out of Africa_ -- it's as a writer of long stories that she exhibited her greatest artistry and achievement.

She published 4 collections of short stories in her lifetime _Seven Gothic Tales_, _Winter's Tales_, _Anecdotes of Destiny_, and _Last Tales_. She also published a slim novel (really a novella), _Ehrengard_. As a devoted reader, I've enjoyed every one of these books. Still, it does her no disservice to point out that some are better than others.

Her first book, _Seven Gothic Tales_ is usually the book of stories that people remember first -- deservedly, because any book that contains "The Deluge at Norderney," "The Monkey," and "The Poet" gets high marks. The other stories in the book aren't exactly chopped liver, either.

However, I will submit that _Winter's Tales_ deserves to be mentioned in the same breath as the earlier book. I approached _Winter's Tales_ the first time expecting to be disappointed after the bravura performance of _Seven Gothic Tales_. I was surprised in the most pleasant manner imaginable. Indeed, in some ways, _Winter's Tales_ surpasses the earlier book as a work of art. The level of writing is uniformly high; the style is still ornate and surprising, but better controlled. And there are still the touches of melodrama and the gothic that give much of her work a strange feeling of having emerged from the 19th Century, while at the same time being very modern.

Although I found the whole of _Winter's Tales_ to my taste, some of the stories stand out. Some stories that I particularly liked were "The Sailor Boy's Tale," "Alkmene" and "The Fish"; but what puts this book over the top is that it contains "Sorrow Acre," arguably the best example of Blixen's fiction. In fact, one could argue that "Sorrow Acre" is one of the finest stories written in the 20th century by *anyone*. An historical and philosophical novella that reconstructs a day in 19th century Denmark, it plays out personal tragedy and comedy on an aristocratic estate with a subtle irony worthy of Theodor Storm or (dare I say) Thomas Mann. By itself, it was worth the price of admission. I've read it many times since. The thematic connections between this story and the earlier "The Deluge at Norderney" are patent.

Her two later collections, _Anecdotes of Destiny_ and _Last Tales_ have their moments. In particular, several stories from _Anecdotes..._ have grown on me over the years, such as "Babette's Feast" and "Tempests." Still, to my mind, she hit her high water mark in _Seven Gothic Tales_ and _Winter's Tales_.
What can I say about Isak Dinesen? She is a master of deep story telling and lyrical writing. She is one of my favorite writers, along with Italo Calvino and Rana Dasgupta. Seven Gothic Tales, Dinesen's first collection of stories, published in 1934, is one of my favorite books, but I had never read Winter's Tales until now. The stories in Winter's Tales are mostly set in Denmark, in the 19th and early 20th century. Most of them, especially The Sailor Boy's Tale, are astoundingly magical, with a twist that you never could have foretold.