Babette's Feast by Isak Dinesen - ISBN: 9780241597286
Hardcover
A feast for the soul, offering rebirth, redemption, and unexpected grace.

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  • Hardcover

    208 pages

  • Release Date

    7 February 2023

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Summary

Introducing Little Clothbound Classics—irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world’s greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.

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-…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780241597286
ISBN-10:0241597285
Author:Isak Dinesen
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Penguin Classics
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:208
Release Date:7 February 2023
Weight:218g
Dimensions:167mm x 116mm x 20mm
Series:Little Clothbound Classics
About The Author

Isak Dinesen

Isak Dinesen was the pen-name of Karen Blixen, who was born in Rungsted, Denmark in 1885. After studying art at Copenhagen, Paris and Rome, she married her cousin, Baron Bror Blixen-Finecke, in 1914. Together they went to Kenya to manage a coffee plantation. After their divorce in 1921, she continued to run the plantation until a collapse in the coffee market forced her back to Denmark in 1931.

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