num_pages: 352
description: Last Tales is a collection of twelve of the last tales that Isak Dinesen wrote before her death in 1962. They include seven tales from Albondocani, a projected novel that was never completed; "The Caryatids," an unfinished Gothic tale of a couple bedeviled by an old letter and a gypsy's spell; and three tales of winter, including "Converse at Night in Copenhagen," a drunken, all-night conversation between a boy-king, a prostitute, and a poor young poet.
language: English
title: Last Tales
titlecomplete: Last Tales
genres: 20th Century, Short Stories, Short Story Collection, Danish, Denmark, Literary Fiction, Scandinavian Literature, Literature, Classics, Fiction
ratings_count: 488
publisher: Vintage