Amazon.com Book Description (ISBN 0394702050, Paperback)

"The tale is the original form of literature...tales are written the way one speaks. I also hope that my tales can be told, for thus they have been conceived, and such is my natural form of expression, when I write." --Karen Blixen, writing as Isak Dinesen, in 1942 following the Danish publication of WINTER'S TALES.

These tales include the following titles: "The Young Man with the Carnation," "Sorrow-acre," "The Heroine," "The Sailorboy's Tale," "The Pearls," "The Invincible Slave-owners," "The Dreaming Child," "Alkmene," "The Fish," "Peter and Rosa" and "A Consolatory Tale."