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Babette's Feast by Isak Dinesen / Karen Blixen
22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Little Clothbound Classics
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 ar ...Show more
Babette's Feast by Isak Dinesen
5.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
'And it happened when Martine or Philippa spoke to Babette that they would get no answers, and would wonder if she had even heard what they said ...Or she would sit immovable on the three-legged kitchen chair, her strong hands in her lap and her dark eyes wide open, as enigmatical and fatal as a Pythia ...Show more
Babette's Feast and Other Stories by Isak Dinesen
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
These five rich, witty and magical stories from the author of Out of Africa include one of her most well known tales, 'Babette's Feast', which was made into the classic film. It tells the story of a French cook working in a puritanical Norwegian community, who treats her employers to the decadent feast ...Show more
Out of Africa (Penguin pocket classics) by Isak Dinesen; Karen Blixen
14.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguins Ser.
In one of the most passionate memoirs ever written, Karen Blixen recalls running a farm in Africa at the start of the twentieth century, and the love affair that changed her life.'When you have caught the rhythm of Africa, you find that it is the same in all her music.'From the moment Karen Blixen arriv ...Show more
Seven Gothic Tales by Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen)
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Romantics, adventurers, sensualists, melancholics and dreamers inhabit the bizarre and exotic world conjured up in these seven tales, whose settings range from Tuscany and Elsinore to a dhow on its way from Lamu to Zanzibar. Proclaimed a masterpiece on its publication in 1934, this collection is shot t ...Show more
Winter's Tales - The Sailor-boy's Tale; the Young Man with the Carnation; the Pearls by Isak Dinesen
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
After the huge success of her autobiography, Out of Africa, Isak Dinesen returned to a European setting in these exquisite, rapturous tales of rebirth and redemption. Beginning with a sailor-boy's bold progression to manhood, the stories are full of longing, a theme often mirrored in the desire to escap ...Show more
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