Isak Dinesen





Isak Dinesen

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born
April 17, 1885 in Rungsted, Zealand, Denmark

died
September 17, 1962

gender
female


About this author

Karen Christence Dinesen, Baroness Blixen-Finecke - wrote as Isak Dinesen, Pierre Andrézel, Tania Blixen, Osceola, etc.
A Danish writer, who mixed in her work supernatural elements, aestheticism, and erotic undertones with an aristocratic view of life, Blixen always emphasized that she was a storyteller in the traditional, oral sense of the word. She drew her inspiration from the Bible, the Arabian Nights, the works of Homer, the Icelandic Sagas, and the fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen, who was her great fellow countryman. She wrote in English and in Danish.
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Average rating: 3.99 · 12,034 ratings · 913 reviews · 50 distinct works
Out of Africa
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3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 7,830 ratings — published 1937 — 84 editions
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Seven Gothic Tales
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3.99 of 5 stars 3.99 avg rating — 766 ratings — published 1934 — 34 editions
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Winter's Tales
3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 589 ratings — published 1942 — 22 editions
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Anecdotes of Destiny & Ehre...
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4.01 of 5 stars 4.01 avg rating — 183 ratings — published 1985 — 4 editions
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Babette's Feast
3.69 of 5 stars 3.69 avg rating — 255 ratings — published 1958 — 21 editions
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Shadows On The Grass
4.02 of 5 stars 4.02 avg rating — 163 ratings — published 1960 — 11 editions
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Babette's Feast/Sorrow-Acre
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4.3 of 5 stars 4.30 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 1993
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Babette's Feast and Other A...
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4.15 of 5 stars 4.15 avg rating — 375 ratings — published 1958 — 5 editions
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The Angelic Avengers
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3.36 of 5 stars 3.36 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 1944 — 13 editions
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Out of Africa and Shadows o...
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4.15 of 5 stars 4.15 avg rating — 1,491 ratings — published 1965 — 13 editions
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More books by Isak Dinesen…
“The cure for anything is salt water - tears, sweat, or the sea.”
Isak Dinesen

“When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself.”
Isak Dinesen

“Perhaps he knew, as I did not, that the Earth was made round so that we would not see too far down the road.”
Isak Dinesen, Out of Africa