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A Story from the Dunes - and other stories (Paperback)
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Discovery Miles 3 180
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A Story from the Dunes - and other stories (Paperback)
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Loot Price R318
Discovery Miles 3 180
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* As in The Ice Virgin, Andersen takes us into new territory - for
an adult readership * The translator is a leading expert on
Scandinavian literature The title story is one of Andersen's later
narratives, combining the immediacy of the fairy tales with a
complexity of construction as intricate as any in 19th-century
fiction. Paul Binding is the first English translator to recognise
this story's true nature, placing it beside The Ice Virgin (also in
Angel Classics) at the summit of the classic European novella
tradition. A Story from the Dunes narrates the life of the son of a
high-born Spanish couple born literally out of shipwreck, who grows
up to all intents and purposes Danish among the seafaring folk of
the Jutland peninsula, knowing nothing of his origins, and whose
adult life pursues a downward path until he attains, tragically, a
state of grace. The shorter tales in this selection vary in mood,
but all carry Andersen's characteristic whimsy, light but deadly
serious: the social/political satire Everything in its Right Place,
the mischievous What One Can Think Of, about a would-be writer who
can't think of anything to write about, and one of Andersen's very
last stories, the elegiac What Old Johanne Told.
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