"Last Tales" is a collection of twelve of the last tales that Karen Blixen wrote under the pen name Isak Dinesen, before her death in 1962. They include seven tales from Albondocani, a projected novel that was never completed; “The Caryatids,” an unfinished Gothic tale of a couple bedeviled by an old letter and a gypsy’s spell; and three tales of winter, including “Converse at Night in Copenhagen,” a drunken, allnight conversation between a boyking, a prostitute, and a poor young poet.
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Isak Dinesen. Last Tales
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THE CARDINAL’S FIRST TALE
THE CLOAK
NIGHT WALK
OF HIDDEN THOUGHTS AND OF HEAVEN
TALES OF TWO OLD GENTLEMEN
THE CARDINAL’S THIRD TALE
THE BLANK PAGE
THE CARYATIDS, AN UNFINISHED TALE
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III
IV
ECHOES
A COUNTRY TALE
COPENHAGEN SEASON
CONVERSE AT NIGHT IN COPENHAGEN
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Her son, who had known her in no other quality than that of a great lady of the world, later in life tried to form for himself a picture of the young Benedetta.
The Prince, at first watching the career of his wife with surprise and anxiety, before he knew of it was overpowered and laid low. In the course of years he came to accept, in sublime glow, the role of a saintly, dethroned king. Possibly his vanity even found a kind of melancholy gratification in the renown and glory of his palazzo and in the envy of other palazzos. To the eyes of the world the princely spouses from then on remained on befitting terms of stately amicability.
