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Isak Dinesen

The Invincible Slave-Owners

  • The Invincible Slave-Owners

  • Baden-Baden, 1875: an aristocratic spa town haven where Europe's elite might 'take the waters' and continue to perpetuate centuries of upper class tradition. Axel Leth, a young Danish nobleman, quietly performs his established role amidst ageing widows and retired generals. Enter Mizzie, a red-haired beauty, shy and demure in the custody of her governess, Miss Rabe. Axel quickly falls in love. But overhearing their tête-à-tête, he soon learns that their performance runs much deeper than the superficial customs of an upper-class watering-hole.
    In this tale of servants, owners and the sham of the aristocratic world, Isak Dinesen unravels the deep-rooted desire of rulers to rule and the crushing burden of pretence, upbringing and social acceptance.

Babette's Feast and Other Stories
Babette's Feast and Other Stories
Isak Dinesen
Babette's Feast
Babette's Feast
Isak Dinesen
Seven Gothic Tales
Seven Gothic Tales
Isak Dinesen
The Angelic Avengers
The Angelic Avengers
Isak Dinesen
Winter's Tales
Winter's Tales
Isak Dinesen
Out of Africa
Out of Africa
Isak Dinesen
Anecdotes of Destiny
Anecdotes of Destiny
Isak Dinesen
Shadows on the Grass
Shadows on the Grass
Isak Dinesen , Karen Blixen
Penguin Modern Classics

Penguin Modern Classics

1269 Books

Isak Dinesen was the pen-name of Karen Blixen, who was born in Rungsted, Denmark in 1885. After studying art at Copenhagen, Paris and Rome, she married her cousin, Baron Bror Blixen-Finecke, in 1914. Together they went to Kenya to manage a coffee plantation. After their divorce in 1921, she continued to run the plantation until a collapse in the coffee market forced her back to Denmark in 1931.

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