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Baron Bror Blixen-Finecke is a distant cousin of Denmark's King Christian. His first wife is a middle-aged woman named Ellen, who divorced him in 1921, wrote best-selling Seven Gothic Tales in 1934 under the pseudonym Isak Dinesen. Baron Bror's second wife is a pert, pretty, English girl of 28, named Eva, who spends most of her time seeking adventure. During one long trek alone in Africa, her automobile broke down. She had to be pushed by natives for 32 days. In Ethiopia last year she watched...
SEVEN GOTHIC TALES? Isak Dinesen? Smith & Haas...
SEVEN GOTHIC TALES-Isak Dinesen-Smith & Haas...
...when for once they were offered a book that would neither harrow their feelings, shame their social consciences, shock their susceptibilities nor arouse their baser impulses. Worlds apart from the concerns of their everyday lives, Seven Gothic Tales opens a window on a refreshingly different world-the world of "Isak Dinesen." Like their romantically pseudonymous author, these seven stories are romantic, but with a difference. Each has the depth of a well-conceived novel. Removed from the U. S. reader in time (the 19th Century) and place (Italy, France, Germany, Denmark, Africa), they are even further removed in atmosphere. Some...
...Author "is a Continental European, writing in English although that is not native to his pen, who wishes his-or-her identity not to be known." What slight internal evidence the stories give would seem to show that "Isak Dinesen" is a Dane...