Babette's Feast and Other Anecdotes of Destiny
by Isak Dinesen
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Author: Isak DinesenEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1988-02-12
ISBN: 039475929X
Publisher: Vintage
Summary of Babette's Feast and Other Anecdotes of Destiny
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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