"The Deluge at Norderney"
Source: Seven Gothic Tales (1934)
Quotes from book
Seven Gothic Tales
Seven Gothic Tales is a collection of short stories by the Danish author Karen Blixen , first published in 1934, three years before her memoir Out of Africa. The collection, consisting of stories set mostly in the nineteenth century, contains her tales "The Deluge at Norderney" and "The Supper at Elsinore".
“My love was both humble and audacious, like that of a page for his lady…”
"The Old Chevalier"
Seven Gothic Tales (1934)
"The Old Chevalier"
Seven Gothic Tales (1934)
"The Dreamers"
Seven Gothic Tales (1934)
"The Deluge at Norderney"
Seven Gothic Tales (1934)
"The Deluge at Norderney"
Seven Gothic Tales (1934)
"The Old Chevalier"
Seven Gothic Tales (1934)
"The Dreamers"
Seven Gothic Tales (1934)
Context: The consolations of the vulgar are bitter in the royal ear. Let physicians and confectioners and servants in the great houses be judged by what they have done, and even by what they have meant to do; the great people themselves are judged by what they are. I have been told that lions, trapped and shut up in cages, grieve from shame more than from hunger.
