Isak Dinesen

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  • Bibliography:
    14 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1947
  • Latest Book:
    November 2022
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Book List in Order: 14 titles

  • The Angelic Avengers

    Lucan has been orphaned, Zosine has been deserted, and London in the 1840s is a hostile place for two young girls without a home. Bound together by poverty, isolation and a shared childhood, they set out to make a future for themselves in new surroun...

  • Ehrengard

    A fairy-tale set in the early-19th century in the Grand Duchy of Babenhausen. The story revolves around the desire of the court painter, Herr Cazotte, to seduce Ehrengard, maid of honour to Princess Ludmilla....

  • The Fat Man

    in Murderous Schemes

    When plotting a murder (figuratively speaking), the mystery writer has at hand any number of M.O.'s including such tried and true conventions as the locked room, the unbreakable alibi, the double bluff, the mistaken identity, and many others. Indeed,...

  • Carnival: Entertainments and Posthumous Tales

    Carnival is an animated collection of works from every stage of Isak Dinesen's career. Many were written during her most creative years but set aside; others she wrote "just for entertainment." The collection includes "Second Meeting," her last work,...

  • Seven Gothic Tales

    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 dhow on its way from Lamu to Zanzibar. P...

  • Daguerreotypes and Other Essays

    "Isak Dinesen . . . had an original approach to life that permeated all her work. She loved storytelling, with the result that most of her essays are quasi-narratives, which proceed not from major to minor premise but from one anecdote to another as ...

  • Babette's Feast and Other Anecdotes of Destiny

  • Out of Africa and Shadows on the Grass

  • Shadows on the Grass

    Isak Dinesen takes up the absorbing story of her life in Kenya begun in the unforgettable Out of Africa, which she published under the name of Karen Blixen. With warmth and humanity these four stories illuminate her love both for the African people, ...



  • Last Tales

    Last Tales is a collection of twelve of the last tales that Isak Dinesen wrote 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 bed...

  • Out of Africa

    With classic simplicity and a painter's feeling for atmosphere and detail, Isak Dinesen tells of the years she spent from 1914 to 1931 managing a coffee plantation in Kenya....

  • Winter's Tales

    In Isak Dinesen's universe, the magical enchantment of the fairy tale and the moral resonance of myth coexist with an unflinching grasp of the most obscure human strengths and weaknesses. A despairing author abandons his wife, but in the course of a ...

  • Anecdotes of Destiny

    These five rich, witty and magical stories from the author of "Out of Africa" include one of her most well known tales, 'Babette's Feast', which was made into the classic film. It tells the story of a French cook working in a puritanical Norwegian co...

  • Babette's Feast

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Isak Dinesen has published 14 books.

Isak Dinesen does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Babette's Feast, was published in November 2022.

The first book by Isak Dinesen, The Angelic Avengers, was published in January 1947.

No. Isak Dinesen does not write books in series.
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