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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 the way of making concrete whatever idea she is considering. Her work is a delight and at times a marvel."--The New Yorker
Print Book, English, 1984
University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Ill., 1984
xxv, 229 pages ; 21 cm
9780226153063, 0226153061
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Isak Dinesen, 1885-1962 / by Hannah Arendt
On mottoes of my life
Daguerreotypes
Oration at a bonfire, fourteen years late
Letters from a land at war
Reunion with England
On orthography
H.C. Branner: the riding master
Rungstedlund: a radio address
"Translations from the Danish in this volume are by P.M. Mitchell and W.D. Paden."--Preliminary page