num_pages: 288
description: In the classic "Babette's Feast," a mysterious Frenchwoman prepares a sumptuous feast for a gathering of religious ascetics and, in doing so, introduces them to the true essence of grace. In "The Immortal Story," a miserly old tea-trader living in Canton wishes for power and finds redemption as he turns an oft-told sailors' tale into reality for a young man and woman. And in the magnificent novella Ehrengard, Dinesen tells of the powerful yet restrained rapport between a noble Wagnerian beauty and a rakish artist. Hauntingly evoked and sensuously realized, the five stories and novella collected here have the hold of "fairy stories read in childhood . . . of dreams . . . and of our life as dreams" (The New York Times).
language: English
title: Anecdotes of Destiny and Ehrengard
titlecomplete: Anecdotes of Destiny and Ehrengard
genres: Short Stories, Danish, Unfinished, Denmark, Literary Fiction, Scandinavian Literature, Literature, Fantasy, Classics, Fiction
ratings_count: 674
publisher: Vintage