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Loading... Carnival: Entertainments and Posthumous Tales (1975)by Isak Dinesen
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. I wish I'd reviewed these stories when they were fresh in mind, but now, a decade later, I can't recall them. ( ) I set this aside for a bit and then got back to it in a tearing read on vacation. Though a few of the stories feel like the fragments that they are, they were all wonderful to read. I must admit that the title story'short larger meaning eluded me but I still enjoyed it. Isak Dinesen remains one of my very favorite authors. no reviews | add a review
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"Carnival "is an animated collection of works from every stage of Isak Dinesen's career. Many were written during her most creative years but set aside; others she wrote "just for entertainment." The collection includes "Second Meeting," her last work, and the title story, the first written under her now-famous pen name. None of these stories has previously appeared in book form in English. Three of them were translated especially for this collection by P. M. Mitchell and W. D. Paden. "The editors have included only material that will stand easily with her more familiar work and satisfy her large following. . . . The rough drafts and variant treatments have been set aside for scholars."--Joseph McLellan, "Washington Post " "The wit, the imagination, the elevated philosophical dialogue mark most of the stories in this volume as vintage Dinesen . . . of special interest to Dinesen fans."--Robert Langbaum, "New York Times Book Review " No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)839.8Literature German literature and literatures of related languages Other Germanic literatures Danish and Norwegian literaturesLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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