The Dreaming Child

Beschreibung

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books<BR><BR>'As for me I have one ambition only: to invent stories, very beautiful stories'<BR><BR>Gothic, expansive and truly spellbinding, Karen Blixen's short stories offer incisive psychological portraits and imaginative visions of war, longing and tender love. Here, an orphan boy creates an elaborate fantasy of a life of grandeur, a feudal lord sets a peasant woman a deadly task, and a young woman resists against her captors, in the midst of conflict.

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