The Dreaming Child

Author: Blixen, Karen

Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

Published on 17 April 2025 by Penguin Books Ltd (Penguin Classics) in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Penguin Archive' series.

Paperback | 128 pages
180 x 110 x 10 | 82g

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books‘As for me I have one ambition only: to invent stories, very beautiful stories’Gothic, expansive and truly spellbinding, Karen Blixen’s short stories offer incisive psychological portraits and imaginative visions of war, longing and tender love. Here, an orphan boy creates an elaborate fantasy of a life of grandeur, a feudal lord sets a peasant woman a deadly task, and a young woman resists against her captors, in the midst of conflict.