With parallel texts in Danish and English. 'Butterfly Valley' is a tour de force, exploring the major themes of life, love, death and art. The form is simple yet complex, a... Læs mere
Danish title: "Ved Vejen". Katinka is the stationmaster's wife in a sleepy Danish provincial town and her domestic languor is disrupted by the arrival of Huus, the new foreman on a... Læs mere
Ida Brandt is the classic outsider. Not acceptable to the Danish aristocratic circle she was brought up around and too moneyed for her nursing colleagues at the hospital. She is good looking... Læs mere
Marie Grubbe is loosely based on the true story of a Danish noble woman of the same name. A wealthy heiress she married the illegitimate son of Frederik The Third of Denmark and Norway. The... Læs mere
The Tower at the Edge of the World is William Heinesen's last novel written when he was 76, and is the summation of all of his work. William Heinesen, one of the greatest... Læs mere
The Black Cauldron is not a war novel as such, even though it takes place during the British occupation of the Faroe Islands in World War II, but rather a work of magic realism which... Læs mere
514 sider, paperback. In his autobiography Hans Christian Andersen gives a vivid account of the Danish provincial life he knew as a child, of life in Danish aristocratic circles and in... Læs mere