The Dreaming Child

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books`As for me I have one ambition only: to invent stories, very beautiful stories'Gothic, expansive and truly spellbinding, Kare n Blixen's short stories offer incisive psychological portraits and imaginative visions of war, longing and tender love. Here, an orphan boy creates an elaborate fantasy of a life of grandeur, a feudal lord sets a peasant woman a deadly task, and a young woman resists against her captors, in the midst of conflict. Show more