Oct 6, 2008

Sorrow-Acre | What Do I Read Next?

Judith Thurman's Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller (1982) is the most comprehensive biography of Dinesen's life in print. Thurman writes in 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 in 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...