“Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: give me leave to do my utmost.” This line from “Babette’s Feast” lends itself to both of the stories in this audio collection, which tell of unbreakable human spirit and total commitment to life choices.
“Babette’s Feast,” now an award-winning film, takes a humorous look at a pure-spirited community in which love, lost youth, self-denial, and creative urges contribute to making the right choices. And “Sorrow-Acre,” the most anthologized of Isak Dinesen’s stories, challenges the most profound choice of all. Emmy and Tony Award-winning actress Colleen Dewhurst’s warm, sensitive interpretation reveals the subtle beauty of Dinesen’s prose.
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"One of my most favorite books of all time. I have read this book so many times and own the movie rendention. To give a book 5 stars is a serious matter that I do not take lightly. So, I can say that I rarely give 5 stars to any book. Need I say more?" — Denise (5 out of 5 stars)
"One of my most favorite books of all time. I have read this book so many times and own the movie rendention. To give a book 5 stars is a serious matter that I do not take lightly. So, I can say that I rarely give 5 stars to any book. Need I say more?"
“For those who loved the film, the audio production proves all the more appealing because it is read by the late actress Colleen Dewhurst. Her warmly personal interpretation makes a listening feast of this story…An engaging voice that seems always to float between a lisp and a whisky whisper.”
" Babette's Feast is one of my all-time favourite tales. With all the beutiful symbolism, the mystery, the setting, the kindnesses back-and-forth...I also own the movie. "
" I haven't read Babette's Feast. Loved Sorrow-Acre. "
Isak Dinesen (1885–1962) was the pen name of Danish author Karen Blixen. She was also published under the pen names Osceola and Pierre Andrézel and wrote works in Danish, French, and English. She is best known for Out of Africa, her account of living in Kenya, and one of her stories, Babette’s Feast, both of which have been adapted into highly acclaimed, Academy Award–winning motion pictures. Her family estate in Rungsted, Denmark, was opened to the public as a museum in 1991.
Colleen Dewhurst (1924–1991) was a Canadian American actress best known for her theater roles, and for a time she was proclaimed the “Queen of Off-Broadway.” In addition to her stage performances, her career also included film and early television dramas, including her role in the television movie adaption of the Anne of Green Gables series. Over the course of her forty-five year career, she won the 1974 Sarah Siddons Award for her work in Chicago theater, two Tony Awards, two Obies, two Gemini Awards, and four Emmy Awards. In 1981 she was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame.
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