Winter's Tales Author:Isak Dinesen "Isak Dinesen's style is elaborately artificial, formal, suave, and beautiful. As delicate as Venetian glass, as ornate with gilt and glitter as a baroque chapel, it chimes like silver bells and rings like crystal. It is marvelous....Perhaps these stories can best be described as the kind Scheherazade would have told the Caliph if, instead of be... more »ing a citizen of medieval Baghdad, she had been born a Danish aristocrat with a subtle, wordly, cynical, and speculative mind."