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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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      Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 4/17/2025
      ISBN13: 9780241746950, 978-0241746950
      ISBN10: 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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