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        1. On a summer morning a hundred and fifty years ago a young Danish squire and his wife went out for a walk on their land.
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        3. Out of Africa is a celebration of her life there and her friendship with the various peoples of the area.
        4. The short story The Ring by Isak Dinesen (whose real name was Karen Blixen) can be seen both as typical of its author's literary art and as different from her.

          5. The Ring

          Isak Dinesen 1958

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          The short story “The Ring” by Isak Dinesen (whose real name was Karen Blixen) can be seen both as typical of its author’s literary art and as different from her most characteristic mode of expression.

          Its eighteenth-century Danish setting places it within the deliberate archaism of Dinesen’s storytelling, and its concern with fundamentals such as identity, sexuality, and violence echo such concerns in her other tales. On the other hand, “The Ring” has a simplicity not found in some of Dinesen’s other works.

          In its concise style, it resembles a folktale or an episode from a medieval saga. “The Ring,” which appears in the 1958 collection called Anecdotes of Destiny, adheres to the classical styles of storytelling, the Aristotelian unities of character, setting, and temporal span, and explores the way in which violence both breaks and ref