Ebook: 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 bedeviled by an old letter and a gypsy's spell; and three tales of winter, including "Converse at Night in Copenhagen," a drunken, all-night conversation between a boy-king, a prostitute, and a poor young poet. From the Trade Paperback edition.;Tales from Albondocani: The cardinal's first tale. The cloak. Night walk. Of hidden thoughts and of heaven. Tales of two old gentlemen. The cardinal's third tale. The blank page--New Gothic tales: The caryatids : an unfinished tale. Echoes--New winter's tales: A country tale. Copenhagen season. Converse at night in Copenhagen.