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Within the traditional "Babette's Feast," a strange Frenchwoman makes a sumptuous feast to get a gathering of religious ascetics and, in doing this, presents them to the real substance of elegance. In "The Immortal Story," a miserly old tea-broker residing in Canton desires for energy and sees redemption as he becomes an oft-advised sailors' account into reality for a lady and man. And within the wonderful novella Ehrengard, Dinesen informs of the strong yet controlled connection between a rakish performer and a respectable Wagnerian elegance. Hauntingly recognized evoked and sensuously, the five stories read and novella gathered below have the your hands on "fairy stories read in youth.