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Last tales / Isak Dinesen.
LIBRA - Special PT8175.B545 S513 1991
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dinesen, Isak, 1885-1962.
- Standardized Title:
- Sidste fortællinger. English
- Language:
- Danish
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dinesen, Isak, 1885-1962--Translations into English.
- Dinesen, Isak.
- Dinesen, Isak, 1885-1962.
- Genre:
- Translations.
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 341 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First Vintage International edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Vintage Books, 1991.
- Summary:
- Last Tales is a collection of twelve of the last tales that Isak Dinesen wrote before her death in 1962. They include seven tales from Albondocani, a projected novel that was never completed; "The Caryatids," an unfinished Gothic tale of a couple bedeviled by an old letter and a gypsy's spell; and three tales of winter, including "Converse at Night in Copenhagen," a drunken, all-night conversation between a boy-king, a prostitute, and a poor young poet.
- Contents:
- Tales from Albondocani: The cardinal's first tale. The cloak. Night walk. Of hidden thoughts and of heaven. Tales of two old gentlemen. The cardinal's third tale. The blank page
- New Gothic tales: The caryatids : an unfinished tale. Echoes
- New winter's tales: A country tale. Copenhagen season. Converse at night in Copenhagen.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Dinesen, Isak, 1885-1962. Sidste fortællinger. English. Last tales.
- ISBN:
- 0679736409
- 9780679736400
- OCLC:
- 25181887
- Online:
- Publisher description
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