Isak Dinesen

This story by ISAK DINESEN, Denmark’s leading writer and in private life the Baronesse Karen Blixen, is a revision and elaboration of an episode which originally appeared in her famous book, SEVEN GOTHIC TALES. Readers who were fortunate will remember how effectively she read this aloud on her visit to this country earlier this year.

ISAK DINESEN is the nom de plume of Baronesse Karen Blixen, whose ancestral home near Elsinore she has described in one of her SEVEN GOTHIC TALES.After her marriage to Baron Blixen, she went to live on a coffee plantation in Kenya; there she remained for seventeen years and began to write the sensuous, eerie tales that have made her famous.