By changing the areas of the plate that are exposed and the length of time the plate is submerged in the acid bath, the engraver can obtain fine and varying shades of gray that closely resemble watercolor washes. Aquatint Copperplate process by which the plate is “bitten” by exposure to acid.Without Evening Standard bellyband, very rarely found.īook with a few faint spots of foxing and small inner paper hinge repair, dust jacket with only faint foxing to flaps. With seven short stories, including "The Deluge at Norderney," "The Poet" and "The Old Chevalier." Color dust jacket art and frontispiece by Rex Whistler. Following its publication in New York the same year, this first English edition of Dinesen's first work in English was published by Putnam, and she translated the stories into Danish the following year as Syv fantastiske fortaellinger. Dinesen said that here "she used the word 'tale… in the sense Shakespeare did in A Winter's Tale, or 'in the naive view of a child or primitive who sees a story as neither tragic nor comic but as marvelous" (Welty, Writer's Eye, 138). Ernest Hemingway, when he received the Nobel, paid her a handsome compliment, deferring to her greater claim" ( New York Times). Her first substantial publication, Seven Gothic Tales, appeared in 1934 and was greeted with acclaim it was followed by several others, her international reputation building to a point where she was nominated for the Nobel Prize.
She had been sketching out and abandoning stories for years now she sat down to work. She returned to Denmark and Rungstedlund, her family home, to less than a heroine's welcome… Ill, lonely and exiled from the Africa that she thought of as her spiritual home, she set herself to remake herself. "Karen Blixen left Africa in 1930, her marriage long ended, her farm a failure and Denys Finch Hatton dead in an air crash. Octavo, original red cloth, original dust jacket.įirst English edition of Dinesen's first book in English, published the same year as the American trade edition, with seven stories, including the highly acclaimed "Deluge at Norderney," in scarce original dust jacket.
"NEITHER TRAGIC NOR COMIC BUT… MARVELOUS": FIRST ENGLISH EDITION OF DINESEN'S SEVEN GOTHIC TALESĭINESEN, Isak.
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