If one theme unifies the 11 tales collected here, it is that of longing. Written after her return...

Originally published in 1934, Seven Gothic Tales, the first book by "one of the finest and m...

'And it happened when Martine or Philippa spoke to Babette that they would get no answers, and wo...

Lucan has been orphaned and Zosine has been deserted, and London is a hostile place for two young...

With classic simplicity and a painter's feeling for atmosphere and detail, Isak Dinesen tells of ...

Last Tales is a collection of twelve of the last tales that Isak Dinesen wrote before her death i...

In the classic "e;Babette's Feast,"e; a mysterious Frenchwoman prepares a sumptuous ...

Isak Dinesen takes up the absorbing story of her life in Kenya begun in the unforgettable Out of ...

These five rich, witty and magical stories from the author of Out of Africa include one of her mo...

Romantics, adventurers, sensualists, melancholics and dreamers inhabit the bizarre and exotic wor...

From the moment Karen Blixen arrived in Kenya in 1914 to manage a coffee plantation, her heart be...

In Isak Dinesen's universe, the magical enchantment of the fairy tale and the moral resonance of ...