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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksAs for me I have one ambition only: to invent stories, very beautiful stories'Gothic, expansive and truly spellbinding, Karen 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.

The Dreaming Child

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    A Paperback by Isak Dinesen

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Penguin Books Ltd
      Published 4/17/2025
      ISBN-13 9780241746950
      978-0241746950
      ISBN-10 0241746957

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      Book Synopsis
      90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksAs for me I have one ambition only: to invent stories, very beautiful stories'Gothic, expansive and truly spellbinding, Karen 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.

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