Pages: 368 (Paperback) ISBN: 0141187190 Pub: Penguin Classics Pub date: 2002-10-31 Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 190508
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Reader Reviews:A fantastic book (2/3 people found this helpful)Isak Dinesen's debut book is one of those rare speciments in literature which one can read and re-read with increasing enjoyment. This is a wonderful collection of stories. Highly recomendable. Interesting failure (3/7 people found this helpful)The Seven Gothic Tales are an essay in suspense/revulsion. These, one suspects, were written in an attempt to fall into the then young film horror genre.They were not taken up for that: werewolves and Transylvania passed into the Western group psyche instead. The tales are over-elaborately written and at times hard to follow.Woman as the cause of overdone revulsion, a recurrent theme, is maybe unpromising in itself. But these are the apprenticeship for Karen Blixen and, viewed in that light, show the writer's development and increasing maturity of style. Not a bad read for a winter's night and quite a varied choice for a book club. Similar ProductsAnecdotes of Destiny: "The Diver"; "Babette's Feast"; "Tempests"; "The Immortal Story"; "The Ring" (Penguin Modern Classics) Shadows on the Grass (Twentieth Century Classics) Winter's Tales (Penguin Modern Classics) The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales (Penguin Psychology) CategoriesAmazon.co.uk places this book into the following categories:
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