Seven Gothic Tales by Isak Dinesen [TRADE PAPERBACK] 1991 • Vintage International

Seven Gothic Tales by Isak Dinesen 

TRADE PAPERBACK [1991] VINTAGE INTERNATIONAL

Trade paperback in excellent condition. 

Like new with some inevitable tanning to pages. 

Originally published in 1934, Seven Gothic Tales, the first book by "one of the finest and most singular artists of our time" (The Atlantic), is a modern classic. 

Romantics, adventurers, sensualists, melancholics and dreamers inhabit the bizarre and exotic world conjured up in these seven intricately interwoven tales, whose settings range from Tuscany and Elsinore, to a show on its way from Lamu to Zanzibar.

Proclaimed a masterpiece on its publication in 1934, this collection is shot through with themes of love and desire - from the maiden lady who now believes herself to have been the grand courtesan of her time, to the Count whose wife is so jealous that she cannot bear him to admire her jewels, and Lincoln Forsner, an Englishman whose search for a woman he met in a brothel leads him into many strange adventures.