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    <body><![CDATA[I picked up this book in the past summer when I was thinking about the &quot;snow queen&quot; (H. Ch. Andersen) and was just curious to read some more danish fairy tales. But these stories were not what I expected, i.e. for children. They are 11 stories, mostly romantic (except 3 of them). I liked v...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41708152">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[In Isak Dinesen's universe, the magical enchantment of the fairy tale and the moral resonance of myth coexist with an unflinching grasp of the most obscure human strengths and weaknesses. A despairing author abandons his wife, but in the course of a long night's wandering, he learns love's true value and returns to her, only to find her a different woman than the one he left. A landowner, seeking to prove a principle, inadvertently exposes the ferocity of mother love. A wealthy young traveler melts the hauteur of a lovely woman by masquerading as her aged and loyal servant. <br/><br/>Shimmering and haunting, Dinesen's <strong>Winter's Tales</strong> transport us, through their author's deft guidance of our desire to imagine, to the mysterious place where all stories are born.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a beautiful and life-changing book of stories. Really something special.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I really just read the last one, &quot;A consolatory tale&quot;. It is supposed to console us that everything needs its opposite to be itself in the most essential manner possible: the poet needs the merchant, the king needs the beggar, woman needs man. And so we who are one need to be grateful for ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45096366">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a collection of short stories, some with fantasy elements, some with a bit of romance, but all having the same sort of wistful feel to them. All the characters seem to be dissatisfied with life. Some of the stories are resolved, some are not.<br/><br/>I had a hard time reading these stori...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59283075">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Dinesen is my hero.  She once said, &quot;Write a little every day without hope and without dispair.&quot;  So, while she wasn't a prolific writer, the stories she's produced take your breath. <br/>She shows the best and the worst of human nature in stories taht combine fairy tale, myths and morals...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81024647">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[In Isak Dinesen's universe, the magical enchantment of the fairy tale and the moral resonance of myth coexist with an unflinching grasp of the most obscure human strengths and weaknesses. A despairing author abandons his wife, but in the course of a long night's wandering, he learns love's true value and returns to her, only to find her a different woman than the one he left. A landowner, seeking to prove a principle, inadvertently exposes the ferocity of mother love. A wealthy young traveler melts the hauteur of a lovely woman by masquerading as her aged and loyal servant. <br/><br/>Shimmering and haunting, Dinesen's <strong>Winter's Tales</strong> transport us, through their author's deft guidance of our desire to imagine, to the mysterious place where all stories are born.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[A collection of short stories from a Danish author. Some were really good, all are a little bit strange, others didn't make the translation culturally and I didn't get them.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://people.binf.ku.dk/~hanne/b2evolution/blogs/index.php/2009/09/23/book-karen-blixen-winter-s-tales" title="http://people.binf.ku.dk/~hanne/b2evolution/blogs/index.php/2009/09/23/book-karen-blixen-winter-s-tales">http://people.binf.ku.dk/~hanne/b2evolut...</a><br/><br/>Sorry some of it is in Danish.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Read during my ongoing Isak Dinesen obsession in the early 1990s.  Obviously, I read a different edition, but I liked this cover.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[winter time- thought this would be a good one to start. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[it seems ok but a bit melodramatic so far]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Real lives gather the aura of a fairytale.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Wow!  What a storyteller she was!  I can imagine sitting around the fireplace (with Robert Redford of course) listening to her craft a tale and never knowing where she would be taking it and then realizing at the end that she took me back to the beginning.  Each story was spun with such mastery, I w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55832339">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm in and out of this book and not sure why.  The writing is superb, the stories excellent.  For some reason I just read a story or two, even a portion of one, and go off to other books.  But I do like the book very much.  a little strange.<br/>later: I've finished the book and would recommend it,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27813571">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[In Isak Dinesen's universe, the magical enchantment of the fairy tale and the moral resonance of myth coexist with an unflinching grasp of the most obscure human strengths and weaknesses. A despairing author abandons his wife, but in the course of a long night's wandering, he learns love's true value and returns to her, only to find her a different woman than the one he left. A landowner, seeking to prove a principle, inadvertently exposes the ferocity of mother love. A wealthy young traveler melts the hauteur of a lovely woman by masquerading as her aged and loyal servant. <br/><br/>Shimmering and haunting, Dinesen's <strong>Winter's Tales</strong> transport us, through their author's deft guidance of our desire to imagine, to the mysterious place where all stories are born.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I LOVE Isak Dinesen's writing. She can paint with words - and make you want to breathe in every last detail of her descriptions. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[De petites belles histoires qui datent d´une autre époque. Un peu datée, mais très romanesque. On sent qu´elle cherchait de l´amour, la danoise. Cependant, les histoires sont un peu démodées, et parfois on s´ennuie. Pendant l´hiver il vaudrait mieux lire ces histoires, si on essaie de s´e...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27723525">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Unsprezece la numar, povestirile baronesei Blixen au un dozaj care le asigura succesul la public. In ele se topesc elemente din literatura gotica, peisaje ale Scandinaviei de altadata si eroi ai unui taram legendar. Liantul acestor texte este nostalgia pe care autoarea o nutreste fata de copilaria petrecuta in Danemarca, dublata de amintirea marcanta a ocupatiei naziste. Temele locale, fructificarea filonului fantastic si inclinatia spre trama romantica rotunjesc un volum scris sub imperiul recuperarii urgente a trecutului. Tonul este cand elegiac, cand vesel, iar amprenta poetica stampileaza pe rand fiecare povestire. „Tanarul cu garoafa“, „Copilul visator“ sau „Peter si Rosa“ sunt perle narative care lucesc delicat intr-o montura eleganta, plina de rafinament.<br/>traducere de Ioana Manolescu]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[* yey! serendipity! :):) fix saptamana asta ma intrebam de unde o sa fac rost de cartea asta si azi [11 aprilie 2009:]am primit'o imprumut de la magda fara sa stie ca vreau sa o citesc si eu fara sa stiu ca ea o are :D:) ce'mi plac 'intamplarile' asteaaa!!! :):)]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Dinesen's Out of Africa is one of my all time favorites.  But with the exception of Babette's Feast, I find her fiction hard going. It seems to operate at a remove for me.  Maybe it's the fable-like quality, but I'm seeing through a glass darkly.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Pretty interesting but depressing stories. I'm not really one for short stories, but this was assigned for a class in college. I was surprised when, a few years later, I finally watched Out of Afrika and realized it was about Isak Dineson!]]></body>
    
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