Judith Thurman's Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller (1982) is the most comprehensive biography of Dinesen's life in print. Thurman writes ill a clear, straightforward, readable style, and her work is accepted by most as the definitive biography of Dinesen.
Winter's Tales (1942) is the collection in which "Sorrow-Acre" first appeared. The other stories ill the book, according to critic Marcia Landy, "are structured around dominant Shakespearian motifs-the relationship between art and nature, loss and recovery, and the pastoral elegiac vision as a vehicle for exploring these motifs. "
Out of Africa is Dinesen's best-known work.
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