“Babette’s Feast” and “Sorrow-Acre”
About this audiobook
“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.
About the author
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.
