Isak Dinesen

Seven Gothic Tales

Isak Dinesen

Written in 1934 by Karen Blixen (1885-1962), using the pseudonym Isak Dinesen, «Seven Gothic Tales» is a collection of short stories set mostly in the nineteenth century and being concerned with aristocracy; breeding and legitimacy; and self-delusion; and combine romantic and supernatural elements with subtle narrative irony. It was published three years before her memoir «Out of Africa».
The stories in this collection are:
Deluge at Norderney The Old Chevalier The Monkey The Roads round Pisa The Supper at Elsinore The Dreamers The Poet

Last Tales

Isak Dinesen

"Last Tales" is a collection of twelve of the last tales that Karen Blixen wrote under the pen name Isak Dinesen, 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, allnight conversation between a boyking, a prostitute, and a poor young poet.