| #587580 in Books | Modern Library | 1994-03-15 | 1994-03-15 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 7.50 x5.00 x1.25l, | File type: PDF | 522 pages | ||13 of 13 people found the following review helpful.| Bizarre--And Extremely Well-Written|By theta|I loved "Out of Africa", which I read--on Hemingway's recommendation--long before the silly movie adaptation existed. This is quite different, except that in both that book and this book Karen Blixen proves herself a master (mistress?) of English prose-- which is all the more surprising considering that English was not her native t||"These tales are a modern refinement of German romanticism. ...They are peopled, or haunted, by ghosts of a past age, voluptuaries dreaming of the singers and ballerinas of the operas of Mozart and Gluck, young men who are too melancholy to enjoy love or too p
Originally published in 1934, Seven Gothic Tales, the first book by "one of the finest and most singular artists of our time" (The Atlantic), is a modern classic. Here are seven exquisite tales combining the keen psychological insight characteristic of the modern short story with the haunting mystery of the nineteenth-century Gothic tale, in the tradition of writers such as Goethe, Hoffmann, and Poe.
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You easily download any file type for your gadget.Seven Gothic Tales (Modern Library) | Isak Dinesen. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.
