# Babette's Feast and Other Stories

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- Book: [Babette's Feast and Other Stories](https://www.bookquiver.com/karen-blixen/babettes-feast-and-other-stories) ([Babette's Feast and Other Stories.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/karen-blixen/babettes-feast-and-other-stories.md))
- Authors: [Karen Blixen](https://www.bookquiver.com/karen-blixen)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-02-4138-799-3
- Published: 2018-11-08
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

These five rich, witty and magical stories include one of Dinesen's most well known tales, 'Babette's Feast', which was made into the classic film. It tells the story of a French cook working in a puritanical Norwegian community, who treats her employers to the decadent feast of a lifetime. There is also a real-life Prospero and his Ariel in 'Tempests', a mysterious pearl-fisher in 'The Diver' and a brief, tragic encounter in 'The Ring'. All the stories have a mystic, fairy-tale quality, linked by themes of angels, the sea, dreams and fate. They were among the last to be written by Isak Dinesen, and show her as a master of short fiction.