"Be transported to snowy lands in this enchanting collection of festive animal tales. Featuring a curious polar bear, a lost penguin, a loyal reindeer, two playful snow leopard cubs, and more!"--
If one theme unifies the 11 tales collected here, it is that of longing. Written after her return from Kenya and during the dark days of the Nazi occupation, they derive their themes and locales from Isak Dinesen's childhood in Denmark.
King Leontes of Sicilia begs his childhood friend, King Polixenes of Bohemia, to extend his visit to Sicilia.
Short stories. By the author of "Beside the ocean of time".
Simple text describes the animals and landscapes encountered on a particular winter's day, in a book with pop-up illustrations and twinkling lights.
The Winter's Tale is Shakespeare's most perfectly realized tragi-comedy, as notable for its tragic intensity as for its comic grace and, throughout, for the richness and complexity of its poetry.
"Celebrate winter with these thirteen holiday classics and modern tales from 1823-1972.
Winter's Tales tackles the question of whether narrative and drama are as different from each other as some scholars have assumed.
The Snow Queen and Other Winter Tales
The story is told through the transferring ownership of an unlikely object, a slide-rule. Based on the short story 'Winter's tales' by John Michael Greer"--Information from Internet.
In Isak Dinesen's universe, the magical enchantment of the fairy tale and the moral resonance of myth coexist with an unflinching grasp of the most obscure human strengths and weaknesses.