Babette's Feast (Little Clothbound Classics)
Editorial PENGUIN BOOKS LTD
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- Publisher PENGUIN BOOKS LTD
- ISBN13 9780241597286
- ISBN10 0241597285
- Type Book
- Pages 208
- Collection Clothbound Classics #
- Published 2022
- Language English
- Bookbinding Hard cover
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English LiteratureBabette's Feast (Little Clothbound Classics)
Editorial PENGUIN BOOKS LTD
Do you want to pick it up at the bookstore?
Mainland Spain
Book Details
Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranean island, and from a game of chess on the ocean to a love story on the moon. Beautifully designed and printed, these collectible editions are bound in colourful, tactile cloth and stamped with foil.
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.
'Tales as delicate as Venetian glass', The New York Times
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.