Karen Blixen

Isak Dinesen

Karen Blixen, author of the acclaimed memoir Out of Africa, was also a master of the short story form- her tales offer luminous meditations on rebirth and redemption, on the mystery and unexpectedness of human behaviour. Alongside 'Babette's Feast', this selection also includes 'Sorrow-Acre', often thought to be one of her finest stories.

Babette's Feast

Darda Nella

He had read in books, before now, of heroics and heroines, the episode he had lived through, the young woman by him, were like the books, and all the same she was more gently and simply vivid, than any book in the world. 

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