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    A Study Guide for Isak Dinesen's "Sorrow-Acre"
    A Study Guide for Isak Dinesen's "Sorrow-Acre"
    A Study Guide for Isak Dinesen's "Sorrow-Acre"
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    A Study Guide for Isak Dinesen's "Sorrow-Acre"

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    A Study Guide for Isak Dinesen's "Sorrow-Acre," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateJul 6, 2016
    ISBN9781535833837
    A Study Guide for Isak Dinesen's "Sorrow-Acre"

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      A Study Guide for Isak Dinesen's "Sorrow-Acre" - Gale

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      Sorrow-Acre

      Isak Dinesen

      1942

      Introduction

      First published in Danish as part of the collection Winter’s Tales, Sorrow-Acre is the most frequently anthologized of Dinesen’s short stories. Written upon her return to Denmark after more than a decade in Africa, and during the darkest days of World War II, the collection’s title has a double meaning, referring to both the cold, northern climate in which Dinesen found herself and to the war raging all around her. As Thomas Whissen writes, "[D]enied a sword, she took up the only weapon she had—her pen—and wrote Winter’s Tales. Huddled behind blackout curtains in that draughty old house on the sound, cut off from the world, aware that she was being watched (German soldiers camped in her backyard), she began writing tales again, the first in nearly a

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