Seven Gothic Tales
By: by Isak Dinesen. With an introd. by Dorothy Canfield.
Edition: Vintage Books edition
Series: The Modern library of the world's best books
Publisher: Vintage Books
Published: 1972
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 420
Copyright date: 1934
First sentence: During the first quarter of the last century, seaside resorts became the fashion, even in those countries of Northern Europe within the minds of whose people the sea had hitherto held the role of the devil, the cold and voracious hereditary foe of humanity.
Description: Seven Gothic Tales has established itself as a modern classic. As William Rose Benét wrote in the Saturday Review of Literature when the book was first published, this is "'a book of unique atmosphere and scenes indelibly delineated, a book bringing the psychological insight of a Henry James to the material of a Northern Boccaccio, a book of extraordinary fantasy that yet takes us intimately into a vivid variety of human lives.'
Notes: Reprint of the 1939 edition.
Table of contents: title: The deluge at Norderney
pagenum: 1; title: The old chevalier
pagenum: 81; title: The monkey
pagenum: 109; title: The roads round Pisa
pagenum: 165; title: The supper at Elsinore
pagenum: 217; title: The dreamers
pagenum: 271; title: The poet
pagenum: 357